Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
Then-Attorney General William Barr urged then-President Trump to change his image if he wanted to win re-election, according to Bob Woodward in a PBS interview about his book, Peril
Said Woodward: “Barr said in an extraordinary meeting with Trump last year — President Trump — Barr said, ‘I travel around the country as much as any Cabinet officer, and you have support there. I talked to your supporters. But Mr. President, let me tell you: They think you are a fucking asshole.’”
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