THREAD: During the campaign, Bill Barr emerged as a serial liar about "voter fraud."

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THREAD: During the campaign, Bill Barr emerged as a serial liar about "voter fraud." He pushed false narratives, cited debunked claims, and doubled down on the absolutely ridiculous conspiracy theory that foreign countries would flood the US with millions of forged ballots. (1/8)
5:39 PM · Nov 9, 2020

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THREAD: During the campaign, Bill Barr emerged as a serial liar about "voter fraud." He pushed false narratives, cited debunked claims, and doubled down on the absolutely ridiculous conspiracy theory that foreign countries would flood the US with millions of forged ballots. (1/8)

June 22: Barr lied about mail-in voting and massively exaggerated the risks of fraud. For the first time, he also raised the possibility that foreign countries will send forged ballots to US voters. Trump picked up this baseless theory and ran with it.

Trump spreads new lies about foreign-backed voter fraud, stoking fears of a 'rigged election' this November
Reeling after a weekend campaign rally with lower-than-expected turnout, President Donald Trump changed the subject Monday morning with a series of widely debunked lies about alleged voter fraud in US…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/trump-voter-fraud-lies-fact-check/index.html

June 25: Barr recycled a bunch of debunked theories, false claims, and exaggerations about the supposed risks of mail-in voting. He said, "you can easily take things out of mailboxes," leading to massive fraud. Experts again panned his commentary.

Barr says, without citing evidence, that an election done predominantly by mail would not be secure
Attorney General William Barr dismissed the possibility of a predominantly mail-in election being secure, echoing a stance promoted by President Donald Trump and dismissed by nonpartisan election expe…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/barr-mail-in-voting-election-fraud-npr/index.html

July 29: In testimony to Congress, Barr again pushed the ridiculous notion that foreign countries will print fake ballots and send them to tons of voters in the US. Pressed for proof, Barr admitted he had no evidence but said it was just "common sense."

Fact checking Barr's claim that it's 'common sense' that foreign countries will counterfeit mail-in ballots
As coronavirus continues to spread, bipartisan officials across the country and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have supported mail-in voting as a pandemic-safe option for the upcomi…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/barr-voter-fraud-fact-check-foreign-countries/index.html

Sept. 3: Barr lied about "substantial fraud" in mail voting. He doubled-down on the conspiracy about fake ballots from overseas. He cited an incident about fraud in TX that did not happen. He distorted the US intel community's findings on Russian meddling

Fact-checking Attorney General William Barr's claims on voter fraud, election interference and Jacob Blake
Attorney General William Barr made a series of false and misleading claims in a contentious interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/politics/william-barr-cnn-wolf-blitzer-interview-fact-check/index.html

Sept. 4: After Barr shamelessly cherry-picked a 2005 report on voting co-authored by Jimmy Carter, the 96-year-old former president felt compelled to speak out. He rebuked Barr, and reaffirmed that voting-by-mail is safe and secure.

Carter affirms safety of mail-in voting after Barr and White House cite him to diminish it
Jimmy Carter is pushing back on efforts by Attorney General William Barr and the White House to use the former Democratic president's work studying voting by mail to discredit the practice.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/carter-vote-by-mail-safety-barr-white-house/index.html

Sep. 12: Barr invented a spooky and totally false narrative that mail voting deprives people of a secret ballot. He was lying. Experts called him out. There are safeguards in place — in fact, many ballots are rejected for not having a "secrecy envelope"

Fact-checking William Barr: Is your vote no longer secret with mail-in ballots?
Attorney General William Barr has become one of the staunchest supporters of the President's campaign against mail-in voting. Speaking in Phoenix on Thursday, Barr continued to push false and negative…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/politics/barr-secret-vote-fact-check/index.html

Sept. 25: Barr briefed Trump about an incident in PA with 9 mail ballots. Breaking protocol, DOJ said they were Trump votes. Trump used the incident to falsely say the election was "RIGGED." Turned out the incident was a mistake caused by lack of training.

Fact-check: Team Trump capitalizes on Pennsylvania ballot incident to baselessly accuse Democrats of 'stealing' the election
President Donald Trump and his campaign are spreading disinformation about an incident in Pennsylvania where nine ballots were improperly discarded, and are falsely claiming it proves widespread "vote…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/politics/trump-pennsylvania-ballots-fraud-fact-check/index.html
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