Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud
Dec 1, 2020 18:32:49 #
Associated Press
MICHAEL BALSAMO
Tue, December 1, 2020, 1:18 PM CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
His comments in an interview with The Associated Press come despite President Donald Trump's repeated baseless claims that the election was stolen, Trump's effort to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.
Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. Barr was headed to the White House later for a previously scheduled meeting.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.
The comments are especially direct coming from Barr, who has been one of the president's most ardent allies. Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voter fraud could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans feared going to polls and instead chose to vote by mail.
Shortly after Barr's statement was published, Trump tweeted out more baseless claims of voter fraud. And his attorney Rudy Giuliani and his campaign issued a scathing statement claiming that, "with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance” of an investigation.
Last month, Barr issued a directive to U.S. attorneys across the country allowing them to pursue any “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they existed, before the 2020 presidential election was certified, despite no evidence at that time of widespread fraud. That memorandum gave prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election was certified. Soon after it was issued, the department’s top elections crime official announced he would step aside from that position because of the memo.
The Trump campaign team led by Rudy Giuliani has been alleging a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to dump millions of illegal votes into the system with no evidence. They have filed multiple lawsuits in battleground states alleging that partisan poll watchers didn’t have a clear enough view at polling sites in some locations and therefore something illegal must have happened. The claims have been repeatedly dismissed including by Republican judges who have ruled the suits lacked evidence. Local Republicans in some battleground states have followed Trump in making similar unsupported claims.
MICHAEL BALSAMO
Tue, December 1, 2020, 1:18 PM CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
His comments in an interview with The Associated Press come despite President Donald Trump's repeated baseless claims that the election was stolen, Trump's effort to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.
Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. Barr was headed to the White House later for a previously scheduled meeting.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.
The comments are especially direct coming from Barr, who has been one of the president's most ardent allies. Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voter fraud could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans feared going to polls and instead chose to vote by mail.
Shortly after Barr's statement was published, Trump tweeted out more baseless claims of voter fraud. And his attorney Rudy Giuliani and his campaign issued a scathing statement claiming that, "with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance” of an investigation.
Last month, Barr issued a directive to U.S. attorneys across the country allowing them to pursue any “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they existed, before the 2020 presidential election was certified, despite no evidence at that time of widespread fraud. That memorandum gave prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election was certified. Soon after it was issued, the department’s top elections crime official announced he would step aside from that position because of the memo.
The Trump campaign team led by Rudy Giuliani has been alleging a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to dump millions of illegal votes into the system with no evidence. They have filed multiple lawsuits in battleground states alleging that partisan poll watchers didn’t have a clear enough view at polling sites in some locations and therefore something illegal must have happened. The claims have been repeatedly dismissed including by Republican judges who have ruled the suits lacked evidence. Local Republicans in some battleground states have followed Trump in making similar unsupported claims.
Dec 1, 2020 18:40:21 #
Michael10 wrote:
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Bush Boy Barr has always been one of the Obama Clinton Cabal. He successfully completed his mission of protecting every traitor in Washington DC including this fraudulent election all the while acting like a Bush republican.
Zero indictments for 10,000 treasons. Barr is worse than the criminal Loretta Lynch.
Dec 1, 2020 18:44:10 #
Michael10 wrote:
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So what? Who do you think Trump will replace him with at the last moment?
Someone Michael Flynn recommends, maybe?
Dec 1, 2020 18:45:35 #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
Bush Boy Barr has always been one of the Obama Clinton Cabal. He successfully completed his mission of protecting every traitor in Washington DC including this fraudulent election all the while acting like a Bush republican.
Zero indictments for 10,000 treasons. Barr is worse than the criminal Loretta Lynch.
Zero indictments for 10,000 treasons. Barr is worse than the criminal Loretta Lynch.
Trump likes to keep people in place just long enough to yank them right before they're most needed.
Dec 1, 2020 20:15:33 #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
Bush Boy Barr has always been one of the Obama Clinton Cabal. He successfully completed his mission of protecting every traitor in Washington DC including this fraudulent election all the while acting like a Bush republican.
Zero indictments for 10,000 treasons. Barr is worse than the criminal Loretta Lynch.
Zero indictments for 10,000 treasons. Barr is worse than the criminal Loretta Lynch.
Even Barr, Trumps faithful protecter, has had it with Trumps mad dog idiocy.
Dec 1, 2020 22:16:07 #
BigMike wrote:
So what? Who do you think Trump will replace him with at the last moment?
Someone Michael Flynn recommends, maybe?
Someone Michael Flynn recommends, maybe?
If I were in Trump's position now I would fire Bush Boy Barr and Wussy Wray and appoint Sidney Powell as Attorney General and Tom Fitton as FBI director. Then watch justice happen.
Dec 2, 2020 07:16:36 #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
If I were in Trump's position now I would fire Bush Boy Barr and Wussy Wray and appoint Sidney Powell as Attorney General and Tom Fitton as FBI director. Then watch justice happen.
I'll bet you would, appoint a woman who can't prove one word of what she says. The female dog is the worst of the Trump Team and you're deserve to get her.
Dec 2, 2020 09:02:05 #
Michael10 wrote:
I'll bet you would, appoint a woman who can't prove one word of what she says. The female dog is the worst of the Trump Team and you're deserve to get her.
This bitch bites, Barr licked Obama's ass.
Dec 2, 2020 09:17:51 #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
This bitch bites, Barr licked Obama's ass.
Trump hand picked him to run the DOJ, Trump only picks the best,,,,Right???
Dec 2, 2020 09:23:30 #
Michael10 wrote:
Trump hand picked him to run the DOJ, Trump only picks the best,,,,Right???
Trump was advised, he didn't know Barr.
Now, we all know Barr.
Dec 2, 2020 09:51:33 #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
Trump was advised, he didn't know Barr.
Now, we all know Barr.
Now, we all know Barr.
He hired him because he knew Barr has a history of protecting illegal acts by former president GHW Bush. He knew the Mueller report was coming out and needed someone who would exonerate him. Now Trump has lost the election Barr has to put on a persona of honestly.
Dec 2, 2020 17:58:53 #
Michael10 wrote:
He hired him because he knew Barr has a history of protecting illegal acts by former president GHW Bush. He knew the Mueller report was coming out and needed someone who would exonerate him. Now Trump has lost the election Barr has to put on a persona of honestly.
Barr and Wussy Wray likely will be kept if Biden wins. They are lefty loyalists, traitors to their country and their position in government.
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