Former Attorney General Bill Barr criticized the mental health of Donald Trump after he was indicted on 37 counts over the mishandling of government documents.
During a Sunday interview on CBS's Face the Nation program, host Robert Costa noted that "many" Republicans are defending Trump.
"You say Trump's alleged conduct is indefensible," Costa told Barr. "What will it say if the party, your longtime party, puts him forward as their nominee?"
"The question is, should we be putting someone like this forward as the leader of the country, leader of the free world who's engaged in this kind of conduct?" Barr replied, arguing that Trump had done some "good things."
"But the fact of the matter is, he is a consummate narcissist, and he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk," he continued.
"Would he put the country at risk if he was in the White House again?" Costa asked.
"He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country's interests," Barr explained. "He's like, you know, he's like a nine-year-old — defiant nine-year-old kid who's always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it."
"And he's a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country's his personal gratification of his, you know, of his ego," he added. "But our country, our country can't, you know, can't be a therapy session for, you know, a troubled man like this."
