Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bill Barr Goes after Trump Again
American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2023 | John Green

Posted on 05/16/2023 4:58:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Bill Barr is inserting himself into politics again. And he's doing it in the best way to get fawning media coverage — sniping at his former boss, President Donald J. Trump. Barr issued a statement about Trump:

He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.

The doctor's diagnosis is that Trump lacks the temperament or wisdom to deliver on his promises. Okay, fine. But before we accept his advice, let's assess his expertise on the subject.

Is Barr saying that another Trump presidency would somehow be different from the last? In his last term in office, Trump provided

- Middle East peace progress via the Abraham Accords,

-energy independence,

-secure borders,

-economic prosperity,

-enhanced national security — confronting threats and strengthening NATO, and

-exposing that the D.C. swamp was working against the wishes of the self-governed — perhaps his greatest accomplishment.

Is Barr saying Trump doesn't have the discipline to deliver any of that — again? Or is Barr simply in dread of the "chaos" that he perceived during the first Trump administration?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: barr; deepstate
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last
To: MtnClimber

Barr is a McRomBush DS a-hole. I support Trump precisely because I want him to disrupt. Our country needs his type of chaos.


41 posted on 05/16/2023 5:57:42 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Fatso should be worried that the people he supports like Kerry are spouting that agriculture is a threat to civilization,it causes global warming! Hey bubba,I mean Barr,your next meal is in danger fatso,so stfu!


42 posted on 05/16/2023 5:57:52 AM PDT by ballplayer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Great article. Probably the best of today.

It's point is simple.

Barr, like most bureaucrats, is a linear thinker (read: "inside-the-box thinker").

Trump is a creative thinker (read: "out-of-the-box problem solver").

Trump can clearly understand the way Barr thinks, but Barr cannot grasp the way Trump thinks.

Out-of-the-box thinkers can see reality in a traditional linear sense and in a non-traditional, iconoclastic/revolutionary (disruptive) sense.

Trump is a mystery to Barr and people like him...hence the "chaos" accusation.

43 posted on 05/16/2023 5:58:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Yet we see the opposite from what Barr claims happening.

Go have another danish, Bill.


44 posted on 05/16/2023 5:58:54 AM PDT by skeeter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Does Barr have something to hide?


45 posted on 05/16/2023 6:02:20 AM PDT by Raycpa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Bill should have prosecuted the FBI outlaws like Peter Strozk, he failed.


46 posted on 05/16/2023 6:04:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Bill knows which side the bread is buttered. Too bad he never fought the DNC as hard as he fights Trump.


47 posted on 05/16/2023 6:04:52 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: grobdriver
The system is the problem - not the man.

Yep, system = sewer/swamp

48 posted on 05/16/2023 6:08:21 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
People in the Deep State, being bureaucrats, have a kind of myopia. They just can't see outside their little world.

They honestly believe that the government is the center of the universe. And, of course, the citizens are not really in that universe. We, the citizens, are an irrelevant afterthought.

49 posted on 05/16/2023 6:09:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

What planet is Bill Barr living on?


50 posted on 05/16/2023 6:14:03 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: desertsolitaire
The MAGA movement within the GOP has grown much stronger since Trump was elected in 2016. With a favorable Senate election map in 2024, we have a real chance at winning enough seats in the Senate to approve an anti-establishment AG.

Of course, the Dems/Establishment will use every dirty trick possible to prevent all this from happening. Praying the GOP has learned enough to effectively counter them this time.
51 posted on 05/16/2023 6:17:36 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Bill Barr can go bar himself.


52 posted on 05/16/2023 6:32:04 AM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BushCountry

Paul Ryan comes to mind.

Unlike many here I’m not convinced Desantis is a deep stater.
———————————————
To anyone…is it not even allowed to point out ANY weakness of Trump on FREEREPUBLIC—-is he perfect and inviolate???


53 posted on 05/16/2023 6:34:36 AM PDT by Phoenix8
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Frankly, Barr can say what he wants and people can make their own judgments in the upcoming primaries. Cabinet members should not talk about their bosses while the boss is in office, but once he is out, and especially if he is running again, they can and should talk.


54 posted on 05/16/2023 6:36:34 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Bill Barr is a POS. Who cares what he thinks. He did his best, to help Trump lose, the 2020 fraudulent election Why should he turn back now. He is another on the patriots hangmen’s list .


55 posted on 05/16/2023 6:39:22 AM PDT by spincaster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wiseprince

“Screw the Senate. Don’t let them turn advise and consent into, we will place deep state pukes in your administration. “

I don’t buy the narrative that McConnell chose Trump’s many “bad” nominees. The evidence is the many bad choices Trump made that did not require Senate approval. Examples: Paul Manafort as campaign manager, Michael Cohen as his personal attorney, Anthony Scaramucci as WH communications director, Reince Priebus and John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff among many examples. Arguably Jeff Sessions was Trump’s choice for AG, not McConnells. Sessions was prominent in Trumps 2016 campaign and very close to Trump.

Assuming though McConnell did behind the scenes control many Trump picks. Why didn’t Trump put up a fight. Trump had the bully pulpit. If he had a truly outstanding person he wanted to appoint but McConnell told him no, Trump could have sent the nomination to the Senate and if McConnell actually resisted Trump could have told McConnell if he didn’t move the nomination through the Senate he would use the bully pulpit to rile up the GOP voting base. Not once did Trump go to the mat with McConnell on a nomination.

If Trump couldn’t handle McConnell during his first term, why should anyone believe he can handle Majority Leader Schumer? Or if the GOP takes the Senate in 2024, Majority Leader McConnell?


56 posted on 05/16/2023 6:39:52 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Trump hired him to be competent and honest.... hahaha but instead he kisses the corrupt DOJ & FBI's a$$ and upholds the DemocRAT LIES!

HE FAILED!

57 posted on 05/16/2023 6:49:45 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phoenix8

I meant RAND Paul…not Paul Ryan.

😵‍💫


58 posted on 05/16/2023 6:51:57 AM PDT by Phoenix8
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: Soul of the South

Trump had bad picks. Then he fired them and tried someone new. The Senate was reluctant to pass anyone through except Mattis. Hopefully he gets in again and this time doesn’t put in anyone who has ever worked in DC


59 posted on 05/16/2023 7:00:13 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: 1Old Pro

The ass that appointed Dunham, knowing what he would find, and left him toothless and unable to bring criminals to justice. That Barr? That wants to sell that book of his?


60 posted on 05/16/2023 7:04:35 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson