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Bill Barr: "The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion"
Yahoo News ^ | August 25, 2022 | David Knowles

Posted on 08/25/2022 7:22:45 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Former Attorney General William Barr said that former President Donald Trump was resorting to “extortion” to continue to exert influence over the Republican Party, and said he still hasn’t decided what to make of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the government’s recovery of hundreds of pages of classified documents.

In a lengthy interview published Thursday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss asked Barr why more Republicans did not simply come out and say that Trump’s claims that election fraud had prevented him from winning the 2020 election were, to use Barr's previous word, “bullshit.”

“The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion,” Barr said of his former boss. “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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andagain; backstabber; bagpipes; billbarr; billbarrel; buffaloedbill; creepstate; deepstate; extortion; fakenews; policestate; singlepartystate; stolenelection; tds; trump
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To: Macho MAGA Man

William Barr doesn’t like when someone else knows how the democrat party operates.


81 posted on 08/26/2022 8:28:35 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: econjack

Yah, mentioning consequences is not blackmail.


82 posted on 08/26/2022 8:38:08 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Bull Man
And if the old entrenched corrupt power brokers like Cheney and McConnell don’t like it, they can save us all a lot of time by just leaving and joining the democrats.

Keywords: old, entrenched.

Which is why we should demand TERM LIMITS. Don't give them time to perfect their network of corruption. Two terms and OUT!

83 posted on 08/26/2022 10:23:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

At what point does he wander into the field of Libel / Slander for Trump & family to sue him???


84 posted on 08/26/2022 10:51:49 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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