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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Bill Barr, frequent Trump critic, says he will support the�
       ‘Republican ticket’ in November
       
       By Shania Shelton, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       9:23 AM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Bill Barr, once an attorney general for Donald Trump who has since
       emerged as one of his , said on Wednesday that despite his differences
       with his former boss, he will support “the Republican ticket” in
       November.
       
       “I heard you call this hush money case ‘outrageous.’ And I also
       know you’ve been asked many times — you’ve had your
       disagreements with the former president,” Bill Hemmer on asked Barr.
       “He’s the presumptive nominee — we assume he will be the
       nominee. Will you support him in 2024?”
       
       “I’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty
       to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,”
       Barr replied. “And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I
       will support the Republican ticket.”
       
       “I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to
       democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda,” he continued.�
       “Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the
       Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion.”
       
       Barr, who in December 2020 after the then-president’s claims of a
       stolen election, has often criticized Trump, including that the former
       president knew he lost the election even as he was trying to overturn
       it and that he thinks Trump would lose on the national level.
       
       Barr has also spoken on Trump’s indictments and  claims by Trump
       and some of his allies that he is being targeted and unfairly treated
       by the federal government in its case against him for his alleged
       mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.
       
       But despite the criticism, he has signaled an openness to voting for
       Trump again.
       
       “My view is that, if you feel that one of two people is going to be
       president — in other words, there’s no third option — one of two
       people are going to be president, then, at that point, you have to do
       your soul-searching as to which one you think would do least harm to
       the country. And that’s the analysis that I would do,” he told .
       
       Barr  in 2022 to the House committee investigating the January 6,
       2021, attack on the US Capitol, where he described in detail why
       Trump’s fraud claims were “bogus” and why he has seen nothing
       since to convince him there was fraud.
       
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