Barr Says Trump Went ‘Off the Rails’ After Election

The New York Times has an early copy of former Attorney General William Barr’s new book:

“For his part, Mr. Barr portrays Mr. Trump as a president who — despite sometimes displaying ‘the menacing mannerisms’ of a strongman ruler as a ‘schtick’ to project an image of strength — had operated within guardrails set up by his advisers and achieved many conservative policy goals. But Mr. Trump ‘lost his grip’ after the election.”

Writes Barr: “He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails. He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.”

One Damn Thing After Another

Memoirs of an Attorney General — A Memoir of Serving Two Presidents

by William P. Barr · William Morrow · 2022

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