• Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Democrats are pursuing charges against Donald Trump as a way to embolden his base 
  • Claimed ‘savvy Democratic strategists’ want Trump to be the 2024 nominee 
  • ‘They want him to be the nominee because he is the weakest of the Republican candidates, the most likely to lose again to Biden,’ Barr said Sunday

Bill Barr said Democrats‘ goal is to use the judicial system to get involved with the Republican primary and ensure that former President Donald Trump wins because they think they can beat him again in 2024.

Trump’s former Attorney General said Sunday morning that the recent indictment against the former president and the many other legal battles are a calculated effort by progressives to embolden the MAGA base.

A grand jury in Manhattan moved late last month to charge Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money payment case – making him the first-ever president to face indictment. Last week, the former president was arraigned in New York.

‘The left is always talking about the ills of politicizing the criminal justice system and I couldn’t agree more that that’s a serious risk, and I’ve spoken out against it for decades,’ Barr said during an interview on ABC News’ This Week program.

‘And this is unfortunate,’ he continued. ‘This is a clear example of that kind of abuse.’

The former AG, who stepped down after the 2020 presidential election but before the January 6 Capitol riot, said last year after Trump announced his candidacy in 2024 that it would be a ‘tragedy’ if he were to become the Republican nominee.

Barr, 72, also said last March, however, that he would still vote for Trump if he did win the primary.

He said that the prosecution of Trump ‘may accomplish its purpose, which is to get into the middle of the Republican primary process and turn it into a circus.’

‘And I think, ultimately, the savvy Democratic strategists know this is going to help Trump, and they want him to be the nominee because he is the weakest of the Republican candidates, the most likely to lose again to Biden,’ he added.

The indictment and arraignment against Trump has only emboldened and mobilized his most loyal supporters.

He saw a surge in poll numbers among Republican voters following the indictment at the end of March.

So far, Trump has three challengers in the primary race – his former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, biotech multi-millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is running on a clear anti-Trump platform.