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brooklynite

(94,502 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 03:30 PM Dec 2020

Barr: No evidence of fraud that'd change election outcome

Source: AP News

His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.

In an interview with The Associated Press, 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.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected 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.




Read more: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-william-barr-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d
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Barr: No evidence of fraud that'd change election outcome (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2020 OP
Ooop cilla4progress Dec 2020 #1
Which rock did he slither out from under? nt Wicked Blue Dec 2020 #2
Must have been a big one. Texin Dec 2020 #30
Be careful billy boy. wendyb-NC Dec 2020 #3
Trumpanzees are not happy Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2020 #55
looking out for his rather substantial ass.... dhill926 Dec 2020 #4
yup, LowBarr knows he can't pull a rabbit out of the hat so had no choice but admit the truth onetexan Dec 2020 #7
I think Barr, like Trump, knew the election was "fixed"... agingdem Dec 2020 #18
Maaaybe 3rd? McConnell has been destructive longer electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #20
I stand corrected... agingdem Dec 2020 #22
de nada! 😉 electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #25
Don't forget the others DENVERPOPS Dec 2020 #41
Oh, they remain very high on the list of heinious "humans" w power. electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #45
So it's pretty much the President-Reject and Rudy in their demented little fantasy world. CaptYossarian Dec 2020 #5
Someone may not have a job at the end of the day. LonePirate Dec 2020 #6
Must be the world's smallest scale C_U_L8R Dec 2020 #8
Wait. He came out of his "undisclosed location"? BumRushDaShow Dec 2020 #9
Heh. Or his and any helpers got tired of feeding the shredder, besides "cutting loose" . electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #21
Those shredders get hot after awhile BumRushDaShow Dec 2020 #35
Heh...that, too! 😁 electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #36
I would hope the White House has a CIA-grade shredder in the basement jmowreader Dec 2020 #49
When I was a fed before I retired, we had a couple pretty powerful shredders as well BumRushDaShow Dec 2020 #61
Back in the 60s we didn't have shredders at NSA. marie999 Dec 2020 #62
CNN reporting that Barr is at the WH right now DesertRat Dec 2020 #10
Will probably be seen next christx30 Dec 2020 #17
or a follow up presser, "clarifying" his earlier statements? flibbitygiblets Dec 2020 #34
🤔🤔🤔 electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #23
Barr is hinting there is fraud, just not big enough bucolic_frolic Dec 2020 #11
Yup. Frankly after he is no longer the head of the DOJ he should be stripped of his license to cstanleytech Dec 2020 #15
And then DENVERPOPS Dec 2020 #43
Someone I know is not getting a pardon! Thoughts and prayers, Billy Boy! beastie boy Dec 2020 #12
I imagine your first sentence said in a "sing song" manner. 😄 electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #24
Think "Ring Around the Rosie", with all the implications of its historical connection to the Plague beastie boy Dec 2020 #28
Ah, that might work. 👍 electric_blue68 Dec 2020 #38
Jabba the Hut is in trouble with the emperor mdbl Dec 2020 #13
He is actually watering the seed of doubt by his comment by implying that there was fraud. cstanleytech Dec 2020 #14
Uh oh. Trump's capo is in trouble now. hadEnuf Dec 2020 #16
'Trumps' Capo': wild!!! appalachiablue Dec 2020 #59
Trump's gonna need a bigger bus durablend Dec 2020 #19
Just throwing Barr under there would hang up the axle! csziggy Dec 2020 #52
Barr is already hedging his bets. Nitram Dec 2020 #26
Trump can't say shit to Barr and Barr knows that too Botany Dec 2020 #27
barR knows where the Grand Jury materials of the Mueller Report are buried... Lock him up. Dec 2020 #64
It appears Barr has no fucks to give any longer. Texin Dec 2020 #29
I guess his execution will be called for shortly. nt oldsoftie Dec 2020 #31
How about "we saw no fraud." Period! He wants MAGATs to have something to save face...not Karadeniz Dec 2020 #32
As far as I'm concerned, "not enough to make a difference" Mr.Bill Dec 2020 #39
Aah...must develop my suspicious brain area more! Karadeniz Dec 2020 #46
That's what Christopher Krebs said. Marcuse Dec 2020 #33
What kind of consigliere would do that? flibbitygiblets Dec 2020 #37
He gets an "F" from Trump for not doing his assignment as instructed. chriscan64 Dec 2020 #40
Cannot stop laughing grantcart Dec 2020 #42
Me either DENVERPOPS Dec 2020 #44
Couple of days ago at GoComics Grokenstein Dec 2020 #47
There may be a choice position opening up for Rude Dog in the very near future. NBachers Dec 2020 #48
People should have figured it out by now. It's all about the graft. IsItJustMe Dec 2020 #50
Despite what this article says I just read on another site that Barr has appointed in2herbs Dec 2020 #51
That is regarding 2016 not 2020 grantcart Dec 2020 #54
c'mon Willy... myohmy2 Dec 2020 #53
Yeah, but the DOJ and the FBI committed the fraud... sinkingfeeling Dec 2020 #56
I HAVE To Quote A Friend JGug1 Dec 2020 #57
This utterly immoral man Oscarthegreat Dec 2020 #58
"Et tu, Barr-te?" marble falls Dec 2020 #60
The rats are leaving the sinking ship! connecticut yankee Dec 2020 #63
Barr bdamomma Dec 2020 #65

cilla4progress

(24,726 posts)
1. Ooop
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 03:31 PM
Dec 2020

sies.

I guess he's looking out for his post-AG life now. Banking on people forgetting he was aligned with the fascist pig.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
55. Trumpanzees are not happy
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:08 PM
Dec 2020
To uncover something, you’d have to look. barr is part of the coup, always has been.
4 posted on 12/1/2020, by JoSixChip (mcconnell is an evil bastard, and his little dog linda too)

Cool. He’s on the list.
13 posted on 12/1/2020, by ConservativeWarrior

We already suspected, now its official. Barr and Durham are Deep State
81 posted on 12/1/2020, by oil_dude

The CIA couldn’t protect it’s servers from being taken by SFs {Special Forces US military}. They are actually losing.
84 posted on 12/1/2020, by conservativepoet

Yeah having 800,000 ballots in Detroit in the middle of the night, ALL going to Biden, not ONE Trump vote..yeah that seems totally believable/sarc was wondering where Barr has been hiding all this time at least its good to know he’s still alive..schmuck had the Hunter Biden laptop for a freakin year and a half and did NOTHING WITH IT
94 posted on 12/1/2020, by Sarah Barracuda

Insurrection act followed by limited martial law and revote. The I.A. gives him the authority to step in where officials REFUSE to uphold their constituents Constitutional rights. He needs to do it. Civil war will come if not. May come anyway. But at least we will have SOMEONE defending US.
90 posted on 12/1/2020, by Blogger

agingdem

(7,845 posts)
18. I think Barr, like Trump, knew the election was "fixed"...
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 04:33 PM
Dec 2020

he and the orange asshole rigged the election...screwing with the postal service, limiting ballot boxes, encouraging the faithful to intimidate voters, badmouthing absentee voting...and it backfired, spectacularly...they underestimated the early voting numbers and record absentee ballots, not to mention rampant Trump fatigue and disgust...and when Biden/Harris won Barr's "dream" of four more years quickly evaporated.. and now that The Idiot That Would Be King is weeks away from eviction, he's trying to salvage his unsalvageable reputation..forever the second most hated man on the planet...

DENVERPOPS

(8,810 posts)
41. Don't forget the others
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:36 PM
Dec 2020

Cheney and Rumsfeld


In my book Cheney is the Blackest, Coldest, most Despicable ********* American ever.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. So it's pretty much the President-Reject and Rudy in their demented little fantasy world.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 03:38 PM
Dec 2020

"Grumpiest Old Men: The Baddest of the Bad Hair Days"

BumRushDaShow

(128,844 posts)
9. Wait. He came out of his "undisclosed location"?
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 03:59 PM
Dec 2020


All the pardon paperwork and "shredding" (deleting) must be done (or at a stopping point).

BumRushDaShow

(128,844 posts)
35. Those shredders get hot after awhile
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:27 PM
Dec 2020

I know mine needs to cool for a bit after about 20 minutes of continuous use or it will shut off.

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
49. I would hope the White House has a CIA-grade shredder in the basement
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 06:12 PM
Dec 2020

Those shredders have 150-horsepower motors on them and can convert a standard paper grocery sack full of paper to dryer lint in seconds - without opening the bag.

BumRushDaShow

(128,844 posts)
61. When I was a fed before I retired, we had a couple pretty powerful shredders as well
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:30 PM
Dec 2020

basically used on extra copies of original material that had already been boxed up to go to the National Archives. The rest ended up getting handled by one of those contracted shredding companies that came around with the big shredder truck (the rolling trash bins with the stuff had locked tops).

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
62. Back in the 60s we didn't have shredders at NSA.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 08:03 PM
Dec 2020

At NSA and all military bases where we worked for the NSA, all paper was burned. If we took a book into work, it stayed there. The only paper that left the building was done by NSA couriers.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
34. or a follow up presser, "clarifying" his earlier statements?
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:26 PM
Dec 2020

I wonder if LowBarr will have to change his ringtone so he doesn't get caught "bitch-buttoning" the Prez on live TV, lol.

cstanleytech

(26,281 posts)
15. Yup. Frankly after he is no longer the head of the DOJ he should be stripped of his license to
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 04:19 PM
Dec 2020

practice law.

DENVERPOPS

(8,810 posts)
43. And then
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:38 PM
Dec 2020

prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law..........

Between Barr and McConnell, I don't know which is worse.........

electric_blue68

(14,882 posts)
24. I imagine your first sentence said in a "sing song" manner. 😄
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 04:58 PM
Dec 2020

🎶"...Wouldn't it be nice... 🎵 😁

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
13. Jabba the Hut is in trouble with the emperor
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 04:17 PM
Dec 2020

I hope what Barr has been doing all this time is uncovered after he's out of the AG office.

Botany

(70,490 posts)
27. Trump can't say shit to Barr and Barr knows that too
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:08 PM
Dec 2020

He knows where the bodies of Trump's schemes are buried. I wonder if he
will turn states evidence to stay out of jail.

Lock him up.

(6,925 posts)
64. barR knows where the Grand Jury materials of the Mueller Report are buried...
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 09:09 PM
Dec 2020
... since he's the one who buRied them...

Texin

(2,594 posts)
29. It appears Barr has no fucks to give any longer.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:11 PM
Dec 2020

It's just a matter of who sacks him first: tRump or Biden. And, of course, there's always the possibility he'll just tender his resignation to tRump, which usually happens in the interim between the arrival of a new administration.

Karadeniz

(22,506 posts)
32. How about "we saw no fraud." Period! He wants MAGATs to have something to save face...not
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:15 PM
Dec 2020

Enough fraud to make a difference.

Mr.Bill

(24,281 posts)
39. As far as I'm concerned, "not enough to make a difference"
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:33 PM
Dec 2020

means the fraud was done by and for republicans.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
37. What kind of consigliere would do that?
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:28 PM
Dec 2020

One who's not getting a pardon in his company Christmas card, that's what kind!

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
40. He gets an "F" from Trump for not doing his assignment as instructed.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:34 PM
Dec 2020

He wasn't supposed to find fraud on a scale enough to change the results, he was supposed to find one case and extrapolate it to 80 million votes.

Grokenstein

(5,722 posts)
47. Couple of days ago at GoComics
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:53 PM
Dec 2020

...one of the regular Useful Idiots for Trump posted an essay loaded with bursts of ALL CAPS in the comments under an editorial cartoon, claiming he was an observer in Michigan and he KNEW, he KNEW!, that Biden lost there because he saw SO MANY ballots being thrown away by LIBERALS who just LAUGHED when he protested, and and and, AND AND AND, and he saw one of the babies and the baby looked at him.

Replies asked him why he wasn't volunteering this vital info to Roo-Roo and Big Willie, instead of ranting about it under a comic strip.

The next day the post was deleted. I was very tempted to find another of the clown's posts and ask him if he deleted it because (1) everyone was laughing at him, (2) he sobered up enough to realize he was leaving himself open to potentially serious legal trouble, or (3) the all-you-can-eat Combo Platter.

Next time I see him posting a rant I'm grabbing a screencap.

IsItJustMe

(7,012 posts)
50. People should have figured it out by now. It's all about the graft.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 06:26 PM
Dec 2020

He got over $170 million since the election. The money just keeps rolling in.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
51. Despite what this article says I just read on another site that Barr has appointed
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 06:44 PM
Dec 2020

Durham as Special Prosecutor this will enable him to investigate unfettered the claims that he and trump want investigated. The article stated that the position of special prosecutor will be difficult for Biden to dissolve.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
54. That is regarding 2016 not 2020
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:04 PM
Dec 2020

Moreover there seems to be a consensus that Durham is a straight arrow. He refused to manufacture claims before election against the original investigators on Russian interference.

JGug1

(320 posts)
57. I HAVE To Quote A Friend
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:10 PM
Dec 2020

"So, our AG says he’s found no evidence of ‘widespread’ voter fraud. Is there such a thing as narrowspread voter fraud? Midspread? I haven’t seen evidence of anyspread fraud despite baseless allegations.

I’m truly enjoying former federal prosecutor and current legal bonehead, Sidney Powell, citing voter fraud in a non-existent county and claiming that Georgia certified the Dominion voting system without a date, which she ‘cleverly’ removed from the document before submitting it to a court.

I’m so old I remember when courts frowned on such shenanigans. Good times…"

 

Oscarthegreat

(121 posts)
58. This utterly immoral man
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:22 PM
Dec 2020

if Barr could think he could keep trump in power by co-opting his pathetic lies about a rigged election he would have. This is an exceptionally immoral unethical man. Now it's all about keeping himself out of prison and about not getting disbarred, no pun intended. Since he seems to be jumping off the idiot ship, expect him to be fired shortly.

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
60. "Et tu, Barr-te?"
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 07:30 PM
Dec 2020

I hear gaskets being blown at the White House. I wonder if this'll hurt Trump's fund raising?

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