CNN's Collins presses Trump A.G. Bill Barr on which candidate is a 'threat to democracy'
Former Attorney General Bill Barr remains ever a Donald Trump disciple.
During his Friday sit-down with CNN's Kaitlan Collins the lifelong Republican who served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020 characterized President Joe Biden as a greater threat to American democracy and, even though he resigned over the 45th president's 2020 election interference claims — still wants to see a second Trump term given the binary choice between his former boss and the incumbent president.
And all of this despite being openly mocked by the 45th president very recently.
ALSO READ: ‘Fraudulent’: Trump tormentor Lincoln Project loses big money in cybertheft scheme
"Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him 'Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy' (New York Post!)," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word 'Lethargic' from my statement."
Barr could only chuckle.
After an awkward pause he said, "Classic Trump. What's the question?"
Collins asked for some kind of substantive response.
"So, it's not about me," he said. "I think that I've said this all along: if faced with a choice between two people, neither of which I think should be president I feel it's my duty to pick the person who I think would do the least damage to the country."
"And I think Trump would do less damage than Biden; and I think all this stuff about a threat to democracy — I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration... or president Biden himself."
Collins later pressed Barr about how after everything that transpired at the end of his post as attorney general he could make a sweeping statement when Trump was orchestrating the prevention of a peaceful transfer of power back on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his devout supporters rioted at the Capitol to prevent the certification of votes to Biden.
She wanted to know how Biden was the bad guy supposedly "threatening democracy?"
Barr started ticking off a list of items that fall under the "collectivist socialist agenda" where freedoms are purportedly being usurped.
Collins interjected, puzzled by how these things, even if true, could be "worse than a president of the United States trying to subvert the will of the people by overturning the results of the election?"
And Barr retreated to listing more problems: the Southern Border crisis, lawlessness in cities, people being told what kind of stoves they can buy and what cars they can't buy — "Those," he said "are the threats to democracy."
He added that America has succumbed to a "Stepford nation" and is being directed by the "progressive elite."