This is a don’t miss article by Jonathan Swan from Axios:
It is quite clear from the article that William Barr knew Trump was mentally impaired after he lost the election.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the Axios article:
"No one supports me," Trump yelled. "No one gives me any fucking support."
Trump got up and stormed out of the Oval Office to his private dining room, leaving Barr and the others behind. Barr glanced over at a red-faced White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and joked, "Well that went well."
I don’t know if William Barr ever took a psychology course. It is a popular pre-law undergraduate major. However, there comes a time when anyone with any sense knows when someone is sorely in need of psychiatric intervention. The following describes what happened after William Barr gave an interview to the AP's beat reporter, Michael Balsamo. Barr was summoned to a meeting where...
Trump was positioned in his usual seat at the head of the table, facing a huge flat-screen TV with the sound on low. On the screen, the conspiracy-drenched One America News network was playing a Michigan Senate hearing on election fraud.
Trump had seen Balsamo's story, and he was fuming. "Why would you say such a thing? You must hate Trump. There’s no other reason for it. You must hate Trump,” the president charged, speaking about himself in the third person.
(Note: Trump has referred to himself in the third person (called Illeism) before. - This isn’t necessarily an indication of mental illness. It is a behavior consistent with malignant narcissism. HB)
"These things aren't panning out," Barr told the president, standing beside his chief of staff Will Levi. “The stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true.” Barr explained that if Trump wanted to contest the election results, the president's internal campaign lawyers would have to do it.
The Justice Department, he continued, had looked at the major fraud allegations that Trump's lawyers had leveled. "It's just bullshit," Barr told the president. Cipollone backed up Barr by saying the DOJ was investigating these claims.
Trump pointed at the TV and asked if Barr had been watching the hearing. Barr said he hadn't. "Maybe you should," the president said. Barr reiterated that the Justice Department was not ignoring the allegations, but that Trump's outside lawyers were doing a terrible job.
"I'm a pretty informed legal observer and I can't fucking figure out what the theory is here," he added. "It's just scattershot. It's all over the hill and gone."
"Maybe," Trump said. "Maybe."
It is quite clear from the article that William Barr knew Trump was mentally impaired based on his manic behavior and his clinging to beliefs that crossed the line from being “merely irrational” to being delusional.
Poll: Barr’s net worth is estimated to be $50 million and he is 70 years old. He doesn’t need a paying job to make ends meet. This doesn’t mean he is ready to retire to obscurity. What do you think he will do in the future? He has many options for employment. He could joina very conservative law firm where cases he is involved with may get publicity. He could a Fox News regular. He could join or start a think tank. He could also write a book. Of course he may be required to testify before Congress so he may remain in the limelight but this wouldn’t be out of choice.