Posted on 08/25/2022 12:59:36 PM PDT by cotton1706
Former Attorney General Bill Barr accused former President Donald Trump Thursday of practicing “extortion” on the Republican Party by endorsing his own batch of candidates in “pursuit of a personal agenda” at a time when the GOP should be making huge electoral gains.
“This pursuit of a personal agenda and personal power is weakening the Republican Party at a time when it could have a historic victory and make historic progress in ‘making America great again,'” Barr said in an interview published on Bari Weiss’ “Common Sense” Substack.
“The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion,” the former AG added. “What other great leader has done this? Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”
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The RNC fundraised using Trump’s name after the November election all the way up to January. They raised huge amounts of money.
My mail box was filled with donor requests.
The corporate machine in DC can’t stop that train now. He’s too hot a commodity.
Barr will have to take a back seat......
Uhmmmm......that’s what politics is you idiot. Alliances and coalition building. Besides, if Trump lost re-election in 2020 it shouldn’t bother anyone. Now if he did, that explains a lot of the Trump hand wringing around the Beltway.
“extortion” *eye roll* drama mamas
What a stupid thing to say, on so many levels.
‘Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home.’
Barr inadvertently admits here that the Republican party base is really Trump’s base at this point. RINOs like him don’t have a base anymore, and so are completely obsolete.
You don’t like it? Go register as a Democrat.
I thought that Barr was a rather stupid individual. However, as he held many important jobs I thought I must be wrong - although I had no reason to suspect otherwise. I should have stuck with my first impression.
**If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”**
What a statement for this elitist deep state snob... he is the one hanging his reputation on what the left controllers offer him...
Trump has followers because you and yours are in it for what YOU can gain... Trump is fighting for the country you would destroy.
You are on the losing side of this equation!
Well President Trump never said that. He picks candidates and encourages his supporters to vote for them.
Pence and McConnell do the same thing, with much less success.
‘The jigs up, Barr. You’re deepstate.’
Have you read about his freak father?
Barr was a CIA dolt with a fake name and all.
He is not bright. He is rather dim.
He displayed his mettle as Attorney General.
The Nation would be better off if he would just fade away and croak.
Since when its is about what you know versus who you know??
America First. Out with the RINOs. What good is winning if you have RINOs who support the globalist Uniparty? We want bold colors, not pastels.
Does Barr expect Trump to support candidates who voted to impeach him? I bet the Liz Cheney defeat is what prompted this from Barr, a Bushie.
Trump brought back the GOP from the dead and expanded it. The Country Club GOP is gone.
Yes. The voters selecting the candidates they want to represent them in Congress instead of allowing the GOPe to appoint them is certainly extortion. Lock him up!
So, if what Trump is doing is extortion, then what the GOPe is doing by NOT supporting the candidates the voters select, has to be extortion as well. “Vote for OUR candidate, or we will not provide campaign funds for the general election.”
Trust Barr. Trust Sessions. Trust.Pence. Trust Kushner. Trust Mitch…
Circumventing— that’s more of what we want. It’s not about the GOP it’s about this country and the voters choices.
One of the things Trump does that I and many others like— is that he mostly listens to us.
Is it in the Constitution that the party picks the candidates? Why even bother with primaries or campaigns, we just sit down and shut up and let our betters tell us what they want.
I’m sick of these parties.
George Washington in his farewell address:
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
Im baffled how he switches sides, too.
He’ ll say one and the next day its the opposite or something.
He’ s totally DS always has been, look at his family history.
Why Pres Trump ever appointed him in 1st place is beyond me...😖😣😖
Well, fat boy, did not McConnell and the RINOs extort and threaten Trump for four years?
Psssst...Bill....Trump IS the GOP!
Barrs a typical swamp creature...petty angry and jealous. Trump did in 4 years what these lifelong DC losers couldnt accomplish in decades...embarassing them with every win, showing the world that things can actually get done in Washington that dont result in national crisises.
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