Why He Did It. Ex-AG Barr Reveals What Led Him To Publicly Betray President Trump

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Disgraced Attorney General Bill Barr told, President Donald Trump, that the legal team Trump had put together in 2020 to investigate the 2020 presidential election finding it was stolen and a “clown show” was feeding the American individuals “bulls ** t,” in a heated meeting in December 2020.

The context of that discussion comes from an excerpt of Barr’s upcoming memoir shared by the Wall Surface Street Journal. Before his account of the meeting with Trump and also several of the President’s senior advisors, the disgraced DoJ chief offered reasons that he made the now-infamous comments to an Associated Press reporter on Dec. 1, claiming, “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”

At that time, Barr’s declaration put him at odds with the President as well as members of Trump’s legal group consisting of Rudy Giuliani as well as Sidney Powell, who had actually made remarkable claims of extensive scams in the 2020 election that robbed Trump of victory. Trump’s lawyers had actually asserted that a “national conspiracy” of voter fraud took place, including serious allegations that susceptabilities in electing machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems equipment caused votes to switch over from Trump to Joe Biden, tilting the result of the political election. Dominion’s attorneys strongly rejected the allegations as well and retaliated taking Giuliani, Powell, as well as others to court in an unfounded $1.3 billion defamation claim.

After the former AG claimed there was no evidence to sustain the complaints of widespread election fraud that would have affected the result of the election, his connection with Trump and also credibility with Trump’s supporters was destroyed.

The Twisted Story Of Attorney General Bill Barr And His Ultimate Betrayal Of Trump

According to Barr’s account, assertions that the 2020 election had been swiped with fraud were grossly overstated, and also the Justice Department did not have the authority to check out state-level election issues when there was no proof that a criminal offense had actually been committed.

“I had no doubt there was some fraud in the 2020 presidential elections. There’s always some fraud in an election that large,” Barr writes. “But the Justice Department had been looking into the claims made by the president’s team, and we had yet to see evidence of fraud on the scale necessary to change the outcome of the election.”

He clarified that data indicated that Democrats had taken advantage of COVID-19 pandemic-related guidelines to make changes to state political election procedures in order to boost turnover via extended voting durations as well as eased accessibility to mail-in voting. Throughout 2020, Barr had actually been a consistent doubter of the mail-in ballot, cautioning that extensive ballot by mail might develop “possibilities” for election fraud.

“There was also no question that, in some areas, state rules meant to guard against fraud—for example, the requirement that voters file applications for mail-in ballots—were not followed. This also increased the opportunity for fraud,” Barr writes. “Still, the opportunity for fraud isn’t evidence of fraud.”

He likewise explained that state governments and localities are accountable for establishing election regulations. The federal government can not step in when a person claims that state, county or local election policies aren’t being followed. Those cases have to be offered state authorities and worked out in state courts.

“The Justice Department does not have the authority or the tools to perform that function. Instead, its role is to investigate specific and credible allegations of voting fraud for the purpose of criminal prosecution. A complaint just saying the rules were not followed is not enough,” Barr wrote.

In situations where there were specific criminal accusations, federal agents determined the claims to be “patently frivolous” or unsupported by available proof, Barr claimed.

When it comes to other claims of 2020 election irregularities, he claimed the Justice Department lacked the authority to pursue them, which led to fairly accurate accusations from Trump that the DOJ was “missing in action.” Nevertheless, the obligation to go after state election abnormalities resided with Trump’s attorneys, who in Barr’s utterly inappropriate bordering on defamatory words, were “feeding his supporters a steady diet of sensational fraud claims, without anything resembling substantiation.”

It was during a Dec. 1 meeting, after Barr had openly talked about the absence of evidence of prevalent fraud, that the Attorney General gave the president his analysis of the skills of his legal team.

Barr was called upon to meet with Trump in the West Wing. The President’s then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, were also in attendance, as was Deputy Counsel Pat Philbin and also White House legal representative Eric Herschmann.

The conference was unpleasant. According to Barr’s recollection, Trump angrily charged him of purposefully weakening the legal debate that Biden’s win was invalid. The president allegedly accused Barr of despising him, which the AG denied, attempting to claim that government law enforcement can’t go searching for election fraud where there isn’t any, as he claimed.

“The department is not an extension of your legal team. Our mission is to investigate and prosecute actual fraud. The fact is, we have looked at the major claims your people are making, and they are bulls**t,” Barr said he told Trump.

He pointed out that the arguments Trump’s legal representatives were making in court did not really allege there was fraud, in spite of public statements from Giuliani and others stating there was. When Trump protested, Barr gave it to him directly.

“‘Mr. President,’ I said, ‘the reason you are in this position is that, instead of having a crackerjack legal team that had its s**t together from day one, you wheeled out a clown show, and no quality lawyers who would otherwise be willing to help will get anywhere near it.'”

As it turned out, that evaluation was shared by the courts, demonstrably biased as they were, having been largely packed by previous Democrat administrations. Trump’s attorneys and his Republican allies in numerous states submitted 62 suits disputing the results of the 2020 election. They were ruled against in 61 of those suits, typically for administrative causes such as supposed “lack of standing” and in others for “failing to substantiate the voter fraud allegations”, in almost none of the suits were the facts ever considered purely on their merits.  The only victory originated from a Pennsylvania judge that ruled that about 2,100 mail-in ballots that were supplied after the due date should not be counted. Biden allegedly defeated Trump in Pennsylvania by approximately 54,000 ballots.

H/T TheBlaze

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