Former United States Attorney General Bill Barr indicated he will support former President Trump's re-election bid this November.
Barr has had a rocky relationship with the former president since coming out against Trump's contests against the 2020 presidential election, along with suggesting Trump was unprofessional and may abuse government power in a second term.
The former AG suggested he may support Trump this November while speaking at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples on Friday.
“Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country,” Barr said, per Axios' Mike Allen. “Voting for Biden is outright national suicide.”
Barr has avoided endorsing any presidential candidates, though when specifically asked if he would support his former boss again, Barr said he would "pick [his] poison" when the time comes.
Last August, Barr insisted Trump "knew well" that he had lost the 2020 election.
“At first I wasn’t sure, but I have come to believe that he knew well that he had lost the election,” Barr said. “The government has assumed the burden of proving that. The government in their indictment takes the position that he had actual knowledge that he had lost the election and the election wasn’t stolen through fraud. And they’re going to have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt.”
In October, Barr suggested Trump's "verbal skills are limited."
“If you get him away from ‘very, very, very,’ you know, the adjectives … they’re unfamiliar to him and they spill out, and he goes too far,” Barr said.
In December, Barr warned that a future AG in a second Trump term should "be ready to oppose the abuse of government power."
Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who has been speculated to launch her own presidential campaign, said Barr was "wrong" for suggesting a second Biden term would be "national suicide."
“I know, he’s absolutely wrong,” Cheney said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. “Now I haven’t endorsed anybody in this presidential race, certainly would never support Donald Trump. And we know what Donald Trump will do, because he’s telling us every day and anybody who has spent any time overseas, who has spent any time studying history of autocracies, and of autocrats knows we have to listen to what Donald Trump saying.”
“So electing Donald Trump’s not Russian roulette; electing Donald Trump would mean putting in power a man who’s committed to unraveling our constitutional framework. So, Bill Barr is just wrong on that,” she added.
Cheney also said she would do "whatever is necessary" to prevent a second Trump term.
