William Barr, Donald Trump’s former attorney general, said he believes Trump’s legal troubles are likely to bolster him during the Republican primaries but “greatly weaken” him during the 2024 general election, which Barr said the former president cannot win.
“He’s already, I think, a weak candidate that would lose, but I think this sort of assures it,” Barr, who has previously said he won’t support Trump’s reelection, told ABC News “This Week” on Sunday.
Barr said it’s not because of Trump’s arrest last week in New York on charges related to hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. The former attorney general called that case “unjustified” and “an abuse of prosecutorial power,” echoing complaints by Trump allies and even some critics.
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