Bill Barr Suggests 2020 Election Loss Caused Trump To ‘Lose His Grip’ On Reality

Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr has a new book on the way, which means its time for another Republican accomplice from the administration to act like they didn't like what they saw happening. And Barr is doing that perfectly. According to his new book, Donald Trump appeared to have "lost his grip" following his 2020 election loss, which suggests he is now completely divorced from reality. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses Barr's new anti-Trumpism.

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Former attorney general William Barr, like so many other members of the Trump administration before him, has a new book coming out. And so just like every other Republican that came before him from the Trump administration, he has taken shot after shot at his former boss, Donald Trump, because isn't that always how things go, right? You're a part of this administration. You go along with it. The worst decisions ever, you're right there, smiling and giving the thumbs up. Then you leave and you put out this book and you're like, let me tell you how dangerous this guy really is. And then you make a lot of money, right? Because they're all a bunch of grifters. You had no problem with these things when they were happening while you were in office. But now you want to talk about how dangerous this dude was upon leaving and of course, that is exactly what William Barr did.

According to a report from the Wall Street journal. Let me read this. Barr claims Trump quote, lost his grip, after the 2020 election results showed he had been defeated with the former AG charging quote, the absurd links to which he took his stolen election claim lead to the rioting on Capitol hill. Strong words. And of course, I will say Bill Barr did not go along with Donald Trump's plan to steal the election, which about the only good thing you can ever say about William Barr at any point in his entire career. But I want to focus for a moment on, on that phrase, lost his grip. He lost his grip when he lost the election. Are you implying Mr. former attorney general that Donald Trump lost his grip on reality? Because that's the way I read this. You don't say somebody lost their grip unless you're referring to that. Unless of course, they're climbing up something and fall down, which we know isn't the case with Donald Trump. So it's not a literal lost his grip. It's a figurative. And I do make that distinction because I am trying to make sense of what Barr is saying. If he is in fact saying that Donald Trump lost his grip on reality, then this is an important claim.

This is something that does need to be highlighted and does need to be shouted from the rooftops for all of these people in the Republican party, clamoring for Donald Trump to win in 2024. We do need to take these warnings that these people are issuing very seriously. And if Bill Barr means this and he is genuine with what he is saying, then yes, that is something worth paying attention to in the near future. We have already seen what a semi chained Donald Trump would do as president of the United States and it was terrifying. If this man were to get back in office, he would not be chained down. Nobody would be able to hold him back. Nobody could restrain him. He knows now to make sure he packs his cabinet positions with the most horrible yet loyal people imaginable who are willing to go along with whatever dastardly scheme he comes up with. That's what would be so dangerous because I personally believe he is unhinged from reality. And if somebody like Bill Barr is making those claims too, then I think everybody needs to be put on high alert about how dangerous it would be if this man ever gets back into office.