Trump mocks Barr after endorsement, says he will remove ‘lethargic’ label

Former President Trump on Wednesday attacked his former attorney general, Bill Barr, after Barr said he would support the Republican Party’s presidential ticket despite his criticism.

“Wow! Former AG Bill Barr, who let down many important people by not investigating voter fraud in our country, just endorsed me for president despite me calling him ‘weak, slow, lethargic, cowardly and lazy ‘ (New York Post!),” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate your heartfelt endorsement, I am removing the word ‘lethargic’ from my statement.

Barr, who for months has criticized Trump’s conduct during his time in office and since leaving, said last week that he would vote for the “Republican ticket” in November, for which Trump is the presumptive presidential nominee.

“I think it’s my duty to choose the person who I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr told Fox News. “And in my opinion, that is: I will vote the Republican ticket.”

Barr served as attorney general for the final two years of Trump’s first term in the White House. Although the former president frequently praised him during his time in office, the former president turned on Barr after he said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, as Trump had claimed.

The former attorney general has since spoken out about the seriousness of the criminal charges facing Trump and criticized his former boss’s rhetoric. Previously, he also called Trump’s defenses for his handling of confidential documents “absurd” and compared the former president to a “defiant 9-year-old boy.”

Barr recently called Trump’s push for Congress to end the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) “crazy and reckless.”

Trump, for his part, has previously criticized Barr as a “coward,” “coward” and “sloppy.”