JUST IN: Bill Barr Endorses Trump!

Well, isn’t this a surprise?

A certain ex-attorney general and outspoken Trump critic has just effectively endorsed President Trump for 2024…

Speaking on Fox’s America’s Newsroom, Bill Barr said that he will be voting for Trump in November.

“I’ve said all along, given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr said, “and in my mind, that’s,” he paused, before finishing, “I will vote the Republican ticket.”

He also tore into Alvin Bragg’s NY case against Trump.

Watch here:

Bill Barr on why the New York hush money case is a bunch of nonsense, and why he’s voting for Trump in November. Now this is a surprise! pic.twitter.com/3TK5ddHSkf

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 17, 2024

Barr’s endorsement of President Trump is a total 180 shift from Barr’s statement on the election last year…

Bill Barr, July 2023: "I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination & will not endorse Trump" https://t.co/8fQn8v9Tmc

Barr, April 2024: "… I will vote the Republican ticket"https://t.co/1npxl9KJ32

— Azi™️ (@Azi) April 17, 2024

Here’s how Bill Barr feels about his sudden reversal:

CNN reported on Bill Barr’s change of heart:

Bill Barr, once an attorney general for Donald Trump who has since emerged as one of his most prominent critics, said on Wednesday that despite his differences with his former boss, he will support “the Republican ticket” in November.

“I heard you call this hush money case ‘outrageous.’ And I also know you’ve been asked many times — you’ve had your disagreements with the former president,” Bill Hemmer on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” asked Barr. “He’s the presumptive nominee — we assume he will be the nominee. Will you support him in 2024?”

“I’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr replied. “And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.”

“I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda,” he continued. “Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion.”

Hmm.

I guess Barr doesn’t see Trump as a “defiant, 9-year-old kid” anymore…

MSNBC gave some background on Barr and Trump’s shaky relationship:

After Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020, former Attorney General Bill Barr seemed eager to put some distance between himself and the president he went to radical lengths to serve. In early 2021, for example, the Republican lawyer accused Trump of “inexcusable” behavior on Jan. 6. “The president’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office,” Barr said the day after the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol.

A few months later, Barr sat down with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and went a little further. Referring to Trump’s election conspiracy theories, the former attorney general said, “It was all bulls—.”

In 2022, he released a book about his experiences and described his former boss as an “incorrigible” and “erratic” narcissist whose post-election lies did “a disservice to the nation.” The idea of Trump running a third national campaign was, as the former attorney general put it at the time, “dismaying.”

Perhaps most notably, Barr added in 2022 that he was convinced that Trump “cared only about one thing: himself. Country and principle took second place.”

A year later, the former attorney general told NBC News “I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination and will not endorse Trump.” It was around this same time when Barr compared voting for Trump to “playing Russian roulette with the country.”

And yet, here we are.

And yet, here we are, indeed.

🚨BREAKING: Bill Barr has endorsed Donald Trump for President.

What’s your reaction? pic.twitter.com/9HrTnpfgl0

— Wake Up America (@_wake_up_USA) April 18, 2024