Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday mocked former President Donald Trump’s “verbal skills,” calling them “very limited.”
Barr made the scathing comment during an event at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, after CBS reporter Jan Crawford asked him if his 77-year-old former boss was “losing his mind” in light of his comments to earlier this month praising terrorists. Hezbollah group as “very intelligent.”
“His verbal skills are limited,” Barr, 73, responded, prompting a laugh from Crawford and laughter from the crowd.
“If you take it away from ‘very, very, very,’ you know, the adjectives… they’re not familiar and they spill over, and it goes too far,” he said. “He’s not very disciplined when it comes to what he says.”
Barr, who resigned from Trump’s Cabinet in December 2020 over what he called “bullshit” election fraud allegations by his then-boss, went on to suggest that something that happened in the former president’s childhood may be to blame for his “fragile ego.” ”. ”
Barr’s comments came after he was asked if Trump was losing following the former commander in chief’s comments about Hezbollah.via REUTERS
“He’s already saying it’s going to be retaliation,” Barr said of a possible second Trump term. “And he is, you know, a very mean man. And it’s all about him. And he has a very fragile ego and you know, something happened to him when he was a child and I’m not going to waste time psychoanalyzing him, but, you know, every encounter he has he has to prove to the other that he is better.”
“It’s, you know, ego assertion, and I think it will be self-indulgent in a new administration and it won’t be as effective as it otherwise could be and things would probably start to move toward chaos,” Barr warned. .
Barr speaks with Trump after the two step off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on September 1, 2020. Barr would resign three months later. AFP via Getty Images
The former attorney general, however, has previously said he would not rule out voting for Trump in the general election, even if he were found guilty of a crime in one of the four criminal trials he faces.
“I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it,” Barr told Fox News host Neil Cavuto in August, noting that he would have to “see all the evidence that comes out about his conduct.”
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