The campaign manager for U.S. Senate Representative Andy Barr (R-KY) has been removed from his post after a major Breitbart News exclusive revealed he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
Blake Gober, Barr’s campaign manager since January, was terminated following the explosive Breitbart News report.
“We parted ways with Blake last week,” Barr campaign spokesman Alex Bellizzi said in a statement. Lexington Herald-Leader Newspaper.
Barr’s closeness to former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the outgoing senator whose seat Barr and other candidates are running to replace, has been a central focus of the election. Barr, whose support for open borders and amnesty has also been a focus of the campaign, has called McConnell his “mentor,” even though Barr is an adult. Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has also been particularly close to McConnell, while businessman Nate Morris has certainly run against the McConnell machine in Kentucky.
Austin Horn, the author of the story at the newspaper, wrote that Gober was fired after the Breitbart News story.
“Dung’s criticism from many on the right came after a report by Breitbart, a conservative outlet that has promoted Morris, about a number of posts criticizing Trump on Twitter in the past,” Horn wrote.
An explosive investigation by Breitbart News revealed Trump’s years-long hatred of the man Barr chose as his campaign manager. Dating back to the 2016 election and running until just before the 2024 election — when he changed his mind and ultimately voted for Trump — Gober spent the better part of a decade trying to stop the president and turn the Republican Party back into a party dominated by globalists like George W. Bush.
Since Barr fired Gobber because of this particular story and these revelations, there are many questions that remain unanswered since the first story published on this by Breitbart News.
As Breitbart News reported in that original story last week, several questions that Barr himself refuses to answer include:
- Did you vet Blake Gober before hiring him?
- Were you aware of all these ‘Never Trump’ declarations by the man you named campaign manager when you hired him? If yes, why did you do it? If not, why should voters trust you to represent them in the US Senate if you can’t investigate your own staff?
- Do you agree with Mr. Gober’s various pledges over the years to oppose President Trump at every turn?
- Are there other people on your campaign staff or in your office staff who have pledged allegiance to the #NeverTrump movement? if so, which ones? If not, how do you know this? What processes have you put in place to vet others?
- Have you informed President Trump about these various comments from your campaign manager or are you hiding this information from the President?
All of the posts in question were public on Gober’s social media accounts between the time Barr hired Gober and when Breitbart News reported his story on Trump Derangement Syndrome.
So either Barr knew and was okay with the content of Goober’s messages when he hired him, or Barr demonstrated that he had not done the most basic vetting of senior staff – a major flaw for a politician, and perhaps even more disqualifying than if he knew and had decided he was okay with the content of Goober’s messages at the time of his hiring until Breitbart News exposed the messages when Barr reversed course and terminated Goober.
