Bill Barr Skewers Donald Trump Over His 'Limited' Verbal Skills

Former attorney general Bill Barr recently took aim at Donald Trump for his "limited" verbal skills, and pointed out that this is how you know when Trump is lying. Barr laid out a roadmap, whether he intended to or not, that helps people understand both how and why Trump lies all the time. Using this knowledge, it is easier to see just how frequently Trump gets trapped by his own limitations and has to resort to lying to get himself out. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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During a recent event, former Attorney General Bill Barr, while sitting with a reporter from CBS News, he was at a, you know, an event. He was up on stage, he's talking to him. The reporter asked him about Donald Trump and about, you know, the things Trump says, the way Trump says things. You know, it was kind of a, a deep dive into why Donald Trump behaves the way that Donald Trump does. And here's what Bill Barr had to say. His verbal skills are limited. You know, he is not very disciplined with what he says. If you get him away from very, very, very, you know, the adjectives, they're unfamiliar to him and they spill out and he goes too far.

Simple statement, right? It's very short statement. It's kind of hard to read a lot into it. But what Bill Barr says in just that little bit of information tells us everything about the way that Donald Trump lies. You know, I've read, God knows how many quotes from Donald Trump here at Ring of Fire for years and years and years, and usually in these quotes that I read, he will say the same thing several times. Sometimes he just says a sentence and then repeats the same sentence. Sometimes he'll slightly reword it right after he already said it one way, then he'll say it another way. But the repetition is something that is very noticeable. It's very common. And the use of very, very, very, you know, I'm very smart. I'm very, very, very smart. I'm very, very, very, very, very smart. And Biden is just so, so, so corrupt, like, just repetition, repetition, repetition.

And Bill Barr is basically telling us that when we see this, that's how you know Trump is lying because he loses his words. All he can think of is to just say the same thing over and over, because while he's doing that, it's almost like his brain is on a delay. So his brain is like, okay, let me craft a new argument. And while I'm working on that, 'cause I'm getting a little slow, you just say this thing over and over again, and then by the time you kind of catch your breath, I'll have a new argument for you that you then spit out.

I mean, it happens to all of us who have to do this off the cuff every single day. I mean, I don't work off a teleprompter. I, I don't have anything written out for this. I have my notes and I just go, it's, I don't know always where it's gonna take me. Sometimes I have ideas, mid-sentence, but Trump, on the other hand, he does it so he can lie. He does it as a stalling mechanism so he can come up with something to either make himself look better, to make his rivals look worse. And it all goes back to the repetition, as Bill Barr describes it, his very limited verbal skills. So once you start hearing that, once you hear him repeat the same phrase, once he starts using all those, you know, adjectives and adverbs there, that whether Bill Barr wanted to admit it this way or not, is how you know Trump is lying. Oh, and for the record, it is also worth noting that even though Bill Barr seems to hate Donald Trump, and he speaks out against him at length as often as he can, bill Barr still says that if Trump's the nominee, then by God,

He'll be voting for him. So

All of this means nothing. Doesn't matter how much you attack him, when in the very next breath, you keep reminding us that you are still going

To vote for him.