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Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November

Bill Barr has claimed Donald Trump often suggested executing his political rivals during heated moments of his four-year tenure in the White House.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin told The View back in December that Mr Trump once called for a staff member to be put to death for leaking a story about the then-president going down to a bunker during Black Lives Matter protests in summer 2020.

Former Trump administration attorney general Mr Barr was asked about the claims during an interview on CNN last week.

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[–] DefiantBidet@lemmy.world 130 points 7 months ago (3 children)

and yet when pressed, "the Biden administration's liberal agenda" is worse than anything - ANYTHING - Trump ever did.

fucking shill.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The worst part about this, besides all the other parts, is that the Biden administration is defending against this, like "Nuh-uh, We don't even have a liberal agenda!"

I wish Biden was the progressive that conservatives pretend he is.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I vote for the party that wants to protect abortion rights. It would take quite a lot for me to vote for any anti-abortion Republican. I think Trump-level disrespect for democracy from the hypothetical Democrat would be enough to change my vote, but I'm not sure some people I know would vote for the Republican even then. Would expecting Republicans to vote for Biden be a double standard in this context?

(What this doesn't explain is why Trump was so overwhelmingly popular in the primaries.)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My dad used to say, and this was back in the Bush era, that the wort Democrat was better than the best Republican, and I still can't argue with that.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago

the [worst] Democrat [is] better than the best Republican

That's generally true, but not in the hypothetical. I'd honestly vote for Mitt Romney before I'd vote for hypothetical Democrat-Ticket Trump.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago

My dad used to say “There’s too many Mexicans coming around my shop, I have to shoo them away with a rake.” I loved him for a lot of reasons, but that was not one.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It's ridiculously close, though, considering that the GOP has literally become a fascist party..

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Would expecting Republicans to vote for Biden be a double standard in this context?

Maybe if they could articulate what it was they disliked about Biden without using some generic "open borders" nonsense.