Barr: "No evidence of widespread fraud."
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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.
Rudy responds:
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.
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Treason!
He should probably be shot, too.
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From a DOJ spokesperson: “Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the Department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election. That is not what the Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.”
But, who should we believe, the Department of Justice says, or what the Associated Press says what the Department of Justice says?
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@George-K said in Barr: "No evidence of widespread fraud.":
From a DOJ spokesperson: “Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the Department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election. That is not what the Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.”
But, who should we believe, the Department of Justice says, or what the Associated Press says what the Department of Justice says?
From the first paragraph of the AP article:
Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
They do put the qualifier in that Barr said not enough fraud to change the outcome. I think that's the only quibble. The AP article doesn't say zero fraud.
https://apnews.com/article/barr-no-widespread-election-fraud-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d
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Now this is funny,
“Biden joked that Barr had just called him, “asking if I can get him in the witness protection program for endorsing me.”
At least Barr kept his sense of humor.
From Tom Friedman’s interview with Biden.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@89th said in Barr: "No evidence of widespread fraud.":
Firing people who don’t do his bidding until the very end. What a child.
Has he fired Barr or are you just pulling something out of your ass?
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You can find anything on twitter.
Including crap by a guy who bilked people out of millions of dollars, posing as The Resistance.
Old George is a total piece of shit. He undermined his wife, failed to properly raise his daughter and screwed over the political party he belonged to...For money, I suppose.
I don't think much of Jon's hero.
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Speaking of the Conway Critters...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/02/never-trumpers-go-allin-democrats-republicans-georgia/
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The Lincoln Project, specifically George Conway.
I've notice you referenced his twitter account multiple times.
