On some points, One Damn Thing After Another is persuasive. And here lies, inadvertently, the story of what happened to Bill Barr. His explanation of many key events is highly tendentious, and parts of the book have not drawn the attention that they should have - in particular, the manic and at times bizarre passages that explain why he would support Trump again. But as the book makes clear, he is less interested in Trump than he is in advancing the Republican Party and its agenda. Barr was often criticized for using his office to serve as Trump’s de facto personal lawyer.
The result was illuminating, if not exactly educational. The impulse is understandable - enriching Bill Barr is not exactly appealing - but as someone who has been highly critical of the man, I figured that I had some responsibility to hear his defense. Perhaps most notable has been Barr’s insistence that he would vote to reelect Trump in 2024 if the former president is the Republican Party’s nominee, despite describing him in the book as having become “manic and unreasonable” and going “off the rails” after losing in 2020.īecause of the suspicion that Barr is using this media attention to launder his reputation, many liberals and legal commentators have suggested that the public should simply ignore his book, while others explicitly refuse to read it. The television-interview format has suited Barr well, allowing him to run circles around generalist news anchors with limited time for questioning while generating a slew of headlines based on their occasional shock at his answers. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, that mystery remains largely intact.
He has been on a press run in service of his 565-page memoir, One Damn Thing After Another, which mostly focuses on his tenure as Donald Trump’s second attorney general, and despite numerous sit-downs with Fox News, NBC News, CNN, and NPR, a publicity blitz that has resulted in the book debuting at No. One of the mysteries of Bill Barr’s long life is how he went from a mostly uncontroversial Republican lawyer in the earlier part of his career to the staunch partisan that he is today.
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