AP News today released a story by reporter Michael Balsano covering an announcement from the Justice Department. It’s entitled, “Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud.”
We should remember that William Barr is a Trump appointee who has bent
the the Justice Department rules a number of times while in office. Thus, his public contradiction of the president’s claims is noteworthy.
So far, over 30 of Trump’s lawsuits have been thrown out of court, generally due to lack of evidence, and often by Republican judges, a few even appointed by Trump himself.
The president’s legal team has made zero headway in its efforts” to prove” that Biden only won the election through fraud.
Unfortunately, those who depend on OAN and Newsmax for their news, will never hear about any of these things…
Below is an excerpt of the AP story, or you can read the entire piece here.
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. . .
. . . 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.
