Bill Barr blasts Trump, says he lacks ‘discipline’ to be president

Former Attorney General Bill Barr had some harsh words for his old boss, former President Donald Trump, in a conversation with Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera on Friday.

“Is Donald Trump fit to be president?” Rivera asked Barr during an event at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio.

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“He does not have the discipline. He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system,” Barr told Rivera. “It is a horror show when he’s left to his own devices. You may want his policies but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos.”

“And if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be,” Barr added.

“It’s a very direct answer,” Rivera responded. Trump, however, is still the undisputed front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. He has consistently led all other challengers in polling, often by double digits.

Barr and Trump have had a rocky relationship since the former president selected Barr as his attorney general in 2019. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Trump announced that Barr was resigning effective Dec. 23, 2020. The two men have had a falling out over Trump’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 elections, which Barr said were “bulls***.”

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Last August, Barr revealed Trump called him a “f***ing loser” during a meeting that addressed protests following George Floyd’s murder. More recently, Barr has suggested that Trump’s legal woes could continue with another indictment stemming from classified documents discovered at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. But he has also criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the indictment against Trump stemming from a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Barr’s comments are in line with previous sentiments where he has urged the GOP to move beyond Trump and select another candidate for president.