Former Attorney General William Barr reportedly warned Donald Trump months before he lost reelection that Republican suburban voters “think you’re an asshole.”That’s according to Business Insider, which obtained an early copy of “Peril,” the new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. In one passage, the book describes Barr attempting to give Trump helpful campaign advice by telling him that those suburban voters don’t care about his “fucking grievances,” Business Insider says. “The main problem,” Barr reportedly told the president, “is you think you’re a fucking genius, politically.”“There are a lot of people out there, Independents and Republicans in the suburbs of the critical states that think you’re an asshole,” Barr reportedly told Trump. “They think you act like an asshole and you got to, you got to start taking that into account.”If Trump kept on the way he was, Barr warned, “You’re going to lose the election,” the book says, according to Business Insider. Trump lost to Joe Biden by 7 million votes, then launched a whole new set of grievances about how the “rigged” election had been “stolen” from him.

Source: Huffington Post September 17, 2021 00:11 UTC