In a message published on April 25 on X, Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House communications director under Donald Trump, wrote that Bill Barr was present when the former president declared that the person responsible for the leak ‘information concerning him should be executed. Interviewed Friday evening on CNN by journalist Kaitlin Collins, the former attorney general of the United States did not deny the story. Especially since it was not an isolated case, he suggested.
“I remember him being very angry about it,” Bar said, referring to Trump’s reaction to the release of information that he had taken refuge in the White House bunker for a demonstration linked to the assassination of George Floyd. “I actually don’t remember him saying ‘execute,’ but I wouldn’t dispute that, you know… The president can lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt we would have taken action. »
Collins followed up by asking if Trump had discussed the possibility of executing people “on other occasions.”
“He would say similar things on other occasions to let off steam. But I didn’t take them literally every time he did it.
– For what ? Collins insisted.
— Because in the end, the execution would not take place and it would have been reasoned with. »
Alyssa Farah Griffin, turned anti-Trump commentator, posted her message on the day one of Trump’s lawyers argued before the Supreme Court in favor of the president’s absolute criminal immunity for official actions committed while in office. That could include the assassination of political rivals, John Sauer, the lawyer, acknowledged.
However, Bill Barr does not see Trump as a threat. “What worries me about President Trump is not that he becomes an autocrat and does these kinds of things,” he told Collins.
As I noted in a post earlier this week, Barr decided to support the “Republican ticket” despite the fact that he declared in 2023 that Trump should never set foot in the Oval Office again.
I had not mentioned a possible explanation for this epic about-face. This explanation may be due to his hiring by the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, which poses as a rival to the United States Chamber of Commerce, criticized by Republicans for its lack of enthusiasm for Trump and his support for certain Democratic candidates opposed to protectionist policies.
Barr chairs the advisory committee for a project called the Legal Action Center within the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. Is this the reason for his support for the “Republican ticket”? One thing is certain, this support is consistent with the mission of those who undoubtedly pay him a very good salary.
Of course, one should not rule out the possibility that Barr sincerely believes that Joe Biden poses a greater threat to American democracy than Trump because of his progressive agenda, as he repeated to Collins.
“The threat to freedom and democracy has always been from the left,” he said. This is the collectivist, socialist program. And this is where we lose our freedom. Parents lose the freedom to control their children’s education. People can no longer say what they think without losing their jobs, etc. This is worse than the McCarthy era. Where does this come from? This does not come from the right. »
Barr sputtered when Collins asked him if all of those things were worse than subverting the will of the people by trying to overturn the results of an election.
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