Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Donald Trump will destroy the entire Republican Party if they do not support him.
“Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading “his people” out of the GOP,” Barr wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Post.
“Trump’s willingness to destroy the party if he does not get his way is not based on principle, but on his own supreme narcissism,” Barr continued. “His egoism makes him unable to think of a political party as anything but an extension of himself — a cult of personality.”
Barr’s rebuke of Trump comes after the former president announced he is running for re-election earlier this month.
Several of Trump’s former allies are distancing themselves from him because of Republicans underwhelming performance in the midterms. Many of the candidates Trump endorsed in key swing states lost as the ‘red wave’ failed to materialize.
Republicans narrowly won control of the House and failed to win control of the Senate. Democrats meanwhile picked up a Senate seat in Pennsylvania left vacant by retiring Republican senator Pat Toomey and is looking to expand their majority with the runoff election in Georgia on Dec. 6 between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker.
“It is painfully clear from his track record in both the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms that Donald Trump is neither capable of forging this winning coalition nor delivering the decisive and durable victory required,” Barr wrote. “Indeed, among the current crop of potential nominees, Trump is the person least able to unite the party and the one most likely to lose the general election.”
