Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr announced over the weekend that, despite his prior opposition to former President Donald Trump, he intends to vote for the 45th president over Joe Biden this November.
As reported by the Epoch Times, Barr revealed his decision during an interview on Fox News Sunday, a reversal from his previous stance of opposing his former superior.
“I’ve said all along that I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think will do the least harm to the country,” said Barr. “And I think that to me, that’s clearly Trump and the Republican administration, which I think is important.”
“I think getting control over the border, stopping the lawlessness in our cities, building up the strength of the United States in an ever more dangerous world, [stopping] the avalanche of regulation that is strangling business and our technological superiority,” Barr continued. “These are critical things that have to be done, and I think that we’ll get them done under a Trump administration.”
Barr was originally appointed to be Jeff Sessions’ successor as Attorney General after Sessions failed to properly use his office to implement President Trump’s agenda and refused to defend him against the debunked “Russian collusion” allegations. Although initially loyal to President Trump, Barr soon began to disagree with Trump on several key issues, including the question of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Barr also cooperated with the January 6th Committee, which was overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats in a more hyper-partisan manner than any other congressional committee, and defended the ongoing investigations against Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
In more recent weeks, however, Barr has been critical of the latest legal attacks against the popular former president, including the ongoing trial in New York over alleged “hush money.”
“The real threat to liberty, the real threat to our system, are the excesses of the progressive left,“ said Barr. ”They are perverting the system of justice, and that’s where the danger lies. The corruption and subversion of our institutions by the left.”
Barr’s announcement marks yet another example of a prominent former opponent of the 45th president switching sides and coming to his defense with less than 7 months to go before the November election. Recently, jailed attorney Michael Avenatti, who originally represented Stormy Daniels in the case that would become the ongoing New York trial, said that he would be open to testifying in the former president’s defense while also criticizing the trial as politically motivated.