Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Former Attorney General William Barr suggested Monday that he would vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024 if Trump is selected as the Republican Party\u2019s presidential nominee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly have made it clear I don\u2019t think he should be our nominee, and I\u2019m going to support somebody else for the nomination,\u201d Barr told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show<\/a> in an interview.<\/p>\n But \u201cbecause I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party,\u201d Barr added, \u201cit\u2019s inconceivable to me that I wouldn\u2019t vote for the Republican nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n Barr pledged to vote for Trump should he win the 2024 GOP nomination for president despite grave accusations and condemnations leveled against the former president in the former attorney general’s forthcoming book about his time in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Specifically, Barr describes in his book clashes with Trump over the White House\u2019s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election \u2014 culminating in a meeting with Trump last December that saw the Justice Department chief refute the president\u2019s election lies to his face.<\/p>\n \u201cI told him that what he was saying was b.s. and that there was no basis for it. And he was livid,\u201d Barr said Monday. Trump then accepted Barr\u2019s offer to resign, according to Barr.<\/p>\n Barr also acknowledged that he underestimated the lengths to which Trump was willing to go to overturn the election and was \u201csurprised\u201d by Trump\u2019s incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that the aim was to pressure Congress and to pressure the vice president,\u201d Barr said of the insurrection. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve said that regardless of whether laws were broken \u2026 it was a shameful thing, because one branch of government shouldn\u2019t be trying to use a mob to pressure another branch.\u201d<\/p>\n Barr said Monday that he \u201cwas pretty content with the administration up until the election,\u201d and that he \u201csupported [Trump\u2019s] policies.\u201d The former president \u201cwas always hard to work with and resistant to advice, but you could usually keep things on track,\u201d Barr said.<\/p>\n After the election, however, Trump \u201cwent off the rails,\u201d Barr continued. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t listen to anybody except a little coterie of sycophants who were telling him what he wanted to hear, and I think he did a lot of damage.\u201d<\/p>\n