Bill Barr, frequent Trump critic, says he will support the ‘Republican ticket’ in November

Bill Barr, once an attorney general for Donald Trump who has since emerged as one of his most prominent critics, said on Wednesday that despite his differences with his former boss, he will support “the Republican ticket” in November.

Bill Barr, once an attorney general for Donald Trump who has since emerged as one of his most prominent critics, said on Wednesday that despite his differences with his former boss, he will support “the Republican ticket” in November. “I heard you call this hush money case ‘outrageous.’ And I also know you’ve been asked many times — you’ve had your disagreements with the former president,” Bill Hemmer on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” asked Barr. “He’s the presumptive nominee — we assume he will be the nominee. Will you support him in 2024?” “I’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr replied. “And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.” “I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda,” he continued. “Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion.” Barr, who left the Trump administration in December 2020 after publicly refuting the then-president’s claims of a stolen election, has often criticized Trump, including saying that the former president knew he lost the election even as he was trying to overturn it and that he thinks Trump would lose on the national level. Barr has also spoken on Trump’s indictments and criticized in June claims by Trump and some of his allies that he is being targeted and unfairly treated by the federal government in its case against him for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.