Commentary
Donald Trump’s former attorney general wants the 45th president of the United States to step aside. According to William Barr, it’s for the good of the Republican Party.
In a recent article, Barr writes that the GOP’s leading candidate for the 2024 nomination “does not have the qualities required to win the kind of broad, durable victory I see as necessary to restore America.”
There was a time when Republican voters hoped that Barr would restore the credibility of federal law enforcement. But the numbers show that the GOP base has less faith in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after Barr’s two-year tenure than before it. And now with his latest anti-Trump salvo, it seems that Barr has joined the effort he was hired to stop—the U.S. intelligence services’ anti-democracy campaign….