The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship-and a cheeky sense of humor-he just might triumph in the end.Ī Texas Bluebonnet finalist and winner of the ILA award for middle grade fiction, Rump is perfect for fans of Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted or Adam Gidwitz's A Tale Dark and Grimm. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. New York Times Bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff 'spins words into gold. Barr warned in April that the Department of Justice’s special counsel probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents could be a “serious potential case” on ABC’s “This Week.This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. He will deliver chaos and, if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.”Īfter he left the Trump administration, Barr has become one of the former president’s most vocal critics.

“You may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. Stay in the conversation on politics: Sign up for the OnPolitics newsletter 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. “It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices,” Barr added. “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.”

“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 responded. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, once one of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies, derided his former boss and called Trump unfit to serve as president in 2024, describing his thinking as a “horror show.”Īt a City Club of Cleveland luncheon Friday in Ohio, Fox News regular Geraldo Rivera asked Barr whether Trump is fit to be president.

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