William Pelham Barr first served as US Attorney General under President George H. W. Bush. He became a friend of Jeb Bush, supported his campaign for governorship of Texas, and planned to support his 2016 Republican presidential nomination campaign. Barr reacted negatively to Donald J Trump’s June 2015 announcement that he would seek the Republican nomination.
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