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Mitch McConnell BEGGED Bill Barr To Stop Trump From Spreading Election Lies
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According to new reports, Donald Trump's election fantasies were so outrageous following the November election that Mitch McConnell went as far as to beg then-Attorney General William Barr to inject some "reality" into Trump. And Barr did try to make Trump see the side of reason and logic, but Trump dismissed it as Barr apparently just hating on him like everyone else does. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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According to William Barr, the former attorney general under Donald Trump in a recent interview, Mitch McConnell at one point after the November elections but before Bill Barr decided to step down a little early, McConnell actually begged Bill Barr to basically talk some sense into Donald Trump, to get him to stop spreading those election lies. And of course, to embrace the reality and the reality was, you lost the election. Now, Mitch McConnell, wasn't doing this because he wanted the Republican party to move on and strategize and heal and find new people. No. Mitch McConnell was doing this because he felt that Donald Trump was poisoning the well down in Georgia because Georgia had their special election the first week of January and in the lead up to that election, where the two Republican incumbents lost, Donald Trump was out there telling people you can't trust vote by mail. The elections in the United States are not safe. Everything is unsecure, so don't trust the system.
And so what happened? Well, many Republicans decided, I'm not going to vote. Trump's telling me, hey, this is not a safe thing to do. The election's going to be stolen anyway. So why bother? Now, it's difficult to say that that is 100%. The reason both of those Republicans lost. It was definitely a contributing factor, much as Stacey Abrams involvement of getting people registered to vote also helped the two Democrats win. So it was a combination of everything, but Trump's lies certainly didn't help anything down there in the state of Georgia. Mitch McConnell was watching all of this unfold, goes to Bill Barr and he says, can you please for the love of God, get this man to stop spreading the lies. Bill Barr, to his credit, according of course to Bill Barr, so take this with a grain of salt, did go to Donald Trump and this is what happened.
Bill Barr goes to Trump and tries to talk some sense into him. And then Trump asks him, again, all according to Bill Barr. So grain of salt here. Trump asked him if he had been having conversations with other people and Bill Barr says, yes. Asked him if he said the election claims were BS, then Trump said, did you say that? Barr replied, yes. Trump asked how the F could you do this to me? Why did you say it? And Barr said, because it's true. And Trump shot back and said, you must hate Trump. You must hate Trump. Of course, speaking of himself in the third person here. So this is the kind of lunacy that we were dealing with inside of the White House in basically the final two and a half months of the Trump administration. Donald Trump was paranoid. Bill Barr was off and tired of dealing with things. And Mitch McConnell was freaking the hell out. That's what took place in those last two and a half months that Donald Trump was in power in Washington, DC. And from the looks of it, the Republican party hasn't changed much in the six months that followed.
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