Bill Barr says he will Jump Off Bridge if Donald Trump wins GOP 2024 nomination

Bill Barr says he will Jump Off Bridge if Donald Trump wins GOP 2024 nomination.

Of the 44 people reached by NBC who served in Trump’s Cabinet, only four publicly support and endorse his reelection. This includes former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, his final Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former budget chief Russell Vought and former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.

Additionally, two former Trump officials are actually running against him in the GOP primary – ex-Vice President Mike Pence and former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says he is backing Pence.

Currently, Trump is polling above 50 percent against more than a dozen other candidates vying for the nomination, according to a FiveThirtyEight tracking. In second place currently is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with less than 20 percent.

Others who have not endorsed Trump so far include Mike Pompeo, once Trump’s Secretary of State and CIA Director; two of his former Defense secretaries, Mark Esper and Pat Shanahan; a former Chief of Staff John Kelly; and another former Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said that he opposes former President Trump getting the 2024 GOP nomination but declined whether to say he would support him in the general election if pitted against President Biden.

“I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination and will not endorse Trump,” Barr told NBC News in a survey of former Cabinet officials about whether or not they would support Trump’s reelection. When asked how he would vote if Trump faced Biden in the general election, Barr offered a more dire take on a popular idiom: “I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it.”

Vought tweeted in May that Trump ‘is the only person I trust to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State.’

‘I’ve seen his willingness up close & behind closed doors,’ Vought added. ‘My friend & former boss is going to finish what he started.’

In June, Grenell tweeted ‘Trump 2024’ in response to a tweet from DeSantis, the No. 2 runner in the Republican primary.

A Meadows spokesperson said the former top aide ‘fully’ supports Trump.

Trump’s former Director of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson said in a statement that ‘Donald Trump is my friend and would make a fantastic president, and if I have an announcement to make about 2024, I’ll look forward to doing so in an appropriate way.’

There are 14 GOP candidates up against Trump, but little have any chance of beating him in the primary election so far. Most polls show Trump ahead of the field by at least 30 percent, with DeSantis usually in the distant second place.

The NBC News poll reached out to 44 former members of Trump’s administration to ask whether they would support Trump’s third bid to the White House. Most did not respond, and just four, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, said they would support him during the 2024 presidential election.

Barr has been a strong critic of the former president over the past year and has been one of several former Trump administration officials who have broken with the former president since the 2020 election and a federal indictment that includes 40 charges of mishandling classified documents and obstruction of justice. Barr said last month that Trump was a “consummate narcissist,” adding that the former president regularly “engages in reckless conduct.”