In a new book, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr is urging the Republican Party to move on from former President Donald Trump and find new leaders in the party.
In the memoir, “One Damn Thing After Another,” Barr wrote that Trump has “shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” the Wall Street Journal.
The book comes as Trump continues to tease his possible run for the 2024 presidential election. Barr writes in the book that Trump would have been reelected had he “just exercised a modicum of self-restraint, moderating even a little of his pettiness.”
But, being direct, Barr wrote that “The election was not ‘stolen.’ Trump lost it,” the Journal reported.
The former AG is urging conservatives and GOP members to look at “an impressive array of younger candidates” to take over Trump as they have the same agendas, minus Trump’s “erratic personal behavior.”
Trump spoke about Barr last summer and called him “a disappointment in every sense of the word” but has not yet commented on Barr’s book.
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The book details much of his time as Attorney General and his relationship with Trump, including a meeting the two had in the Oval Office following Barr’s public statements that there was not widespread evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“This is killing me—killing me. This is pulling the rug right out from under me,” Mr. Trump shouted at Mr. Barr, according to the book, the Journal reported. “He stopped for a moment and then said, ‘You must hate Trump. You would only do this if you hate Trump.’”
The book goes on to depict the events leading to Barr’s resignation weeks before Trump’s term in office was over, as well as other investigations Barr conducted while in office.
The memoir from Barr will be released on March 8 by the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins, the Journal reported.
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