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As Byron York notes, polls showing that Biden is losing to Trump by margins of four to 10 percentage points “set off a mass freakout in the Democratic Party.” Across the aisle, former Attorney General William Barr also shows signs of disturbance, and a possible change of heart.
“I’ve said all along given two bad choices,” Barr recently proclaimed, “I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country. And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda. Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion.”
If that leaves people puzzled, they might recall what Barr has actually said and done “all along.” For example, he supported the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence.
“I think a lot of the attacks on the FBI are over the top because a decision like this is not made by the FBI,” Barr explained. The DOJ and AG would make the call and “the FBI would be told to go and execute it.” Barr also supported the indictment of Trump for mishandling classified documents. Trump was “not a victim,” and “if even half of it is true, then he’s toast,” and so on. That is hard to top, but Barr was up to the task. In May of 2023, he predicted “a horror show” if Trump was again elected president.
“You may want his policies,” Barr told reporters, “but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.” (emphasis added) Who, exactly, would deliver Trump policies Barr doesn’t say. Consider also Barr’s One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, published in 2022.
Right out of law school, Barr launched his career with the CIA, and aside from Stansfield Turner, CIA bosses come off well. John Brennan shows up on page 190 claiming that the CIA knew what the Russians were doing in the 2016 election. In the 1976 election, John Brennan voted for the Stalinist Gus Hall, candidate of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. Barr is not curious why the CIA would hire such a person. The Gus Hall voter was a signatory to the letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop story an example of “Russian disinformation.” As this confirms, there are no “former” CIA directors and agents.
Barr is a big fan of Robert Mueller and deputy attorney general Rob Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller to investigate President Trump. “Few can appreciate the complexities Rod faced during that tumultuous time,” writes the former AG, “and even fewer will know the important contributions he made to the administration and the country.” Barr mentions not a single one, so the contributions can’t have been very important. The former Attorney General and CIA man is also friendly with James Comey and admires Christopher Wray, who denied the FBI spied on Trump.
Barr tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the Russia hoax, but as the memoir explains, “I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs.” So for William Barr, some people are above the law, a curious position for the Attorney General of the United States.
On October 24, 2020, Joe Biden said, “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” In a December 1 interview, Barr claimed, “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.” Barr failed to indicate what independent election investigations or audits he had conducted or consulted. A ballpark figure might be zero. For Barr, old Joe, who never even campaigned, won fair and square.
William Barr now supports the election of Donald Trump as the person who would “do the least harm to the country.” Embattled Americans have to wonder if he cleared it with the FBI, now openly deployed against Trump supporters, smeared as violent extremists, domestic terrorists and so forth. According to CIA man John Gentry, the politicization of intelligence was “aimed at Trump” and the IC agencies are “available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.
Is Biden’s CIA boss William Burns okay with that? Do Burns and Wray think another Biden administration would be national suicide? Would Burns and Wray support the candidate who would do the “least harm” to the country? Will the CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ, DHS et al decline to meddle in the 2024 election?
Can Barr, Burns or Wray tell us how many of the 10 million illegals Biden let into the country, and the 22 million who were already here, will be headed to the polls in November? As Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.