(Headline USA) Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out March 8 titled One Damn Thing After Another, and billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush.
Barr, now 71, served under Bush from 1991-93 and under Trump from 2019-2020.
The title of the long-rumored book refers to an expression Barr had heard about the nature of the job of attorney general.
“With the Trump administration, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the opioid epidemic, Chinese espionage, big tech, the COVID outbreak, civil unrest, the first impeachment, and the 2020 election fallout,” William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Tuesday.
Once considered one of Trump’s closest allies—and reviled by the Left as his lackey—Barr showed his true colors as a career deep-statist with several key failures in the waning months of the administration.
Trump grew openly critical of his top lawman for allowing the Durham report into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax to languish, amid speculation that it would have painted a damning picture of the partisan FBI and other intelligence agencies.
It also came to light that the FBI had kept secret an investigation into Hunter Biden‘s laptop, which contained damning information about the Biden family and potentially exculpatory information that Trump might have used during Democrats’ first effort to impeach him.
Barr is also suspected of having phoned in or even thwarted efforts to investigate allegations of vote fraud during the 2020 election, after having been convinced ahead of time that Trump would lose.
He grew increasingly insubordinate in their private meetings and openly undermined Trump’s efforts to challenge the election, allowing leftists to hold up Barr as evidence that the election was entirely above reproach. Barr ultimately resigned with a month left in Trump’s term.
After the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol, Barr issued a statement in which he condemned Trump for “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress.”
“The President’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters,” he said.
He also badmouthed the former president in a tell-all book published last year by ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl.
Barr’s own book promises, however, to be more expansive, harkening back to his first term as AG, under fellow deep-statist George H.W. Bush, who had served as CIA director before becoming vice president under Ronald Reagan.
“Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the Bush administration in the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra,” said the publisher’s announcement.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
