Former US President Donald Trump mocked former US Attorney General Bill Barr while thanking him for his support in the 2024 presidential election.
Barr, a vocal critic of Trump, told Fox News last week that he would vote Republican in November, saying: “I think it’s my duty to choose the person who I think would do the least homesick.”
“In my mind, it’s — I’ll vote for the Republican ticket,” he said.
Trump responded to the comment on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“Wow! Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who failed a lot of great people by failing to investigate voter fraud in our country, just endorsed me for president despite the fact that I called him a ” weak, slow, lethargic, courageless and lazy. “(New York Post!),” he wrote.
“Since I greatly appreciate his full support, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!” he added.
Barr served as attorney general under Trump between 2019 and 2020, but their relationship became strained after Barr said the U.S. Department of Justice found no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Barr, once a key Trump ally, has become increasingly critical of the former president following his criminal indictments.
In June 2023, Barr called Trump a “consummate narcissist” and “a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of those of the country.”
Barr also criticized Trump’s argument that it was unfair for him to be in court when he was supposed to be campaigning.
“You don’t get immunity for two years in the run-up to the election just saying, ‘Hey, I’m a candidate, you can’t judge me.’ These investigations have been going on for a while, everyone knew about it even before he announced his candidacy,” he said.
Trump has previously suggested that some of Barr’s criticism came from being “tough” on him when he was in office.
“I was tough on him in the White House, for good reason,” he wrote on Truth Social, per The Hill.
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