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Former Attorney General Bill Barr, once one of former President Donald Trumps closest allies, derided his former boss and called Trump unfit to serve as president in 2024, describing his thinking as a horror show.

At a City Club of Cleveland luncheon Friday in Ohio, Fox News regular Geraldo Rivera asked Barr whether Trump is fit to be president.

If you believe in his policies, what hes advertising is his policies, hes the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them, Barr responded. He does not have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system.

It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices, Barr added.

If Trump were to reclaim the White House in 2024, Barr warned of chaos and the potential for Trump to self-sabotage his own agenda as president.

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Former President Donald Trump and Former Attorney General Bill Barr step off Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 1, 2020.

You may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos and, if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.

After he left the Trump administration, Barr has become one of the former presidents most vocal critics. Barr warned in April that the Department of Justices special counsel probe into Trumps handling of classified documents could be a serious potential case on ABCs This Week.

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Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday that former President Donald Trump's presidency would be a "horror show" if he were re-elected because his former boss lacks the "discipline" as well as the "ability for strategic thinking" needed to get things done.

"It is a horror show, you know, when he's left to his own devices," Barr said in remarks at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio on Friday.

"If you believe in his policies, what he's advertising is his policies, he's the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them," Barr said to a reporter who asked if Trump is fit to be president again.

The reporter noted that some voters say they want Trump re-elected for his policies and are willing to overlook his mistakes as president in his last term.

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Former Attorney General Bill Barr said former President Donald Trump lacks "discipline" and "ability for strategic thinking." (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"He does not have the discipline," Barr replied. "He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system."

BILL BARR: TRUMP AND I HAVE OUR 'DIFFERENCES' BUT PROSECUTION IS 'UNJUST TREATMENT' LIKE RUSSIAGATE

Attorney General Bill Barr and President Donald Trump attend a signing ceremony for an executive order establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 26, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

"And, and so you may want his policies. But Trump will not deliver Trump policies," Barr said.

"He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be."

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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

According to recent Fox News polling, Trump is the favored candidate for the Republicans in 2024, even ahead of popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to announce his candidacy but is widely rumored to be considering a run.

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Barr served as attorney general under Trump from 2019 to 2020. He was also attorney general during the George H. W. Bush administration.

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Mary Trump, an avid critic of former President Donald Trump and his niece, recently joked about the only way that would make her uncle go away ahead of the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele was discussing race, MAGA, and voter behavior during a podcast posted on Wednesday when he asked Mary Trump about her uncle.

"Donald Trump has got his own issues. He's going to deal with that. And I think in large measure, be unfazed by it...I've talked to Republicans alike...Donald Trump may not be the top of the ticket. I said that's...not necessarily a good thing for the party. Do you think this man [Trump] goes quietly into any good night?," Steele asked Mary Trump.

She then responds: "There's only one way that happens, and I'm not going to say it out loud." Though she didn't give any indication what would make Trump go away, Steele however grasped what she meant, agreeing "exactly."

While analyzing a set of issues that influence voters, both Steele and Mary Trump spoke about Trump's influence during the Wednesday podcast. The former president's niece said that her uncle didn't change the GOP but "revealed something about it."

"And he also gave people permission...to be their worst selves, which is why so many people got pushed out of the party, and so many other people like the new leaders of the party, [Georgia Representative] Marjorie Taylor Greene and [Florida Representative] Matt Gaetz, decided that it was their time, and they weren't wrong about this."

Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party has come into question in recent months, especially after the 2022 midterm elections when some Republicans turned on him because some of the candidates he endorsed lost key races. The GOP won back the House but failed to regain control of the Senate.

Meanwhile, Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges when he was arraigned in New York over claims he orchestrated a hush money payment of $130,000 paid by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet ahead of the 2016 presidential election about an affair she claims she had with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels and has maintained his innocence in the case, accusing prosecutors of engaging in a politically motivated witch hunt.

In November, Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid, even though he still faces other legal challenges on the federal and state level. This includes the investigation of his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; a probe into alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia; and his alleged mishandling of classified documents seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago home last summer.

Newsweek reached out by email to Trump's media office for comment.

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To recover his political popularity, Donald Trump has "played the victim," Asa Hutchinson said.

Hutchinson told NBC News that Trump's followers "believe he's been picked on" amid the investigations he faces.

Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, is also a GOP candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said former President Donald Trump has "played the victim" to win favor in the polls.

Hutchinson, also a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that despite Trump's resurgence in the polls after his flop in the 2022 midterms, it is still early in the campaign season.

"He was responsible for a lot of the failure and growth that we expected and wins in a number of different states. And so his numbers were down," Hutchinson said on Sunday. "Since then, his numbers have gone up because he's played the victim. People believe he's been picked on because of some prosecutions."

In April, Trump pled not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the investigation into his businesses by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Since then, Trump has launched a social media campaign against Bragg.

Hutchinson said Trump has been successful at rallying his base around his victimhood, giving the former president the leading spot among GOP candidates in the polls by double-digit percentage points for now.

"I joke, in some ways, that his campaign manager is Alvin Bragg of New York City," Hutchinson said of Trump on Sunday. "That indictment caused those numbers to go up because they don't believe they're fair. This will settle out over time."

Trump faces several other investigations, including two by the federal government for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6 Capitol riots, as well as his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

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On Sunday, Hutchinson said Trump has a "moral responsibility" for the January 6 attack, though the Justice Department will have to decide if he has a criminal responsibility.

Hutchinson said he's focused on the 2024 elections and "persuading Americans that we need to go a different direction."

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Donald Trump

Donald Trump is flush with cash. After leaving the White House, he refinanced a San Francisco office tower and sold his D.C. hotel, leaving him with an estimated $425 million war chest. Where has he invested all that money? A new financial disclosure report, filed last month, provides answers.

Most of it is held in safe investments, which makes sense for a guy who is 76 years old, maintains a portfolio of riskier real estate assets, and might need a few hundred million to handle legal issues. His disclosure lists the value of each asset in broad ranges, making it difficult to know exactly how his investments break down, but it looks like the bulk is sitting in bonds, Treasuries, and money-market funds. Stocks make up a good portion of the rest. Trump holds blue-chip names like Procter & Gamble, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. Theres also a small sliver composed of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and gold.

The former presidents largest equity position is in a nonbank lender named Owl Rock Capital Corporation, founded by a trio of veteran financiers from Blackstone, KKR and Goldman Sachs. Trump holds $5 million to $25 million of stock in the company, according to his financial disclosure report. The companys chairman, Edward DAlelio, leant money to the Trumps Castle casino and hotel in Atlantic City during the late 1980s, and later joined the board of Trump Entertainment Resorts.

His investment in Owl Rock makes a lot of sense to wealth manager Lori Van Dusen of LVW Advisors. We have emerged into a great opportunity for credit strategies like this, she says. With tighter credit and lending conditions and a slowing economy, there is more of a need for providers of liquidity and restructuring. My sense is that is why he would own this.

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