Former Attorney General William Barr reportedly pushed back strongly on President Trump when discussing claims the president was circulating about the election being "stolen" from him. Barr, during a meeting with Trump at the White House in early December, told the president that such theories of a stolen election were "bullshit," Axios reported Monday. Other aides in the room, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone, were reportedly surprised that the attorney general had made the comment, though did not disagree with his remarks. The meeting came as Barr had publicly undercut the president's baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, telling The Associated Press that the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence to back up the claims. "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election," Barr had told the AP in the interview. Trump reportedly confronted Barr about his comments while in the private dining room next to the Oval Office. "Why would you say such a thing? You must hate Trump. There’s no other reason for it. You must hate Trump,” the president asserted, according to Axios. Barr responded that "these things aren't panning out" and "the stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true," Axios reported. The attorney general reportedly emphasized that the DOJ had reviewed the major claims put forward by the president's lawyers. Trump announced almost two weeks later, on Dec. 14, that Barr would step down from his position in the Trump administration, leaving roughly a month before President-elect Joe Biden would enter office. Trump praised Barr for doing an "outstanding job" and said they had a "very good" relationship. Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Biden transition approval above 65 percent ahead of inauguration:... The president had sharply criticized the attorney general leading up to his exit over Barr's remarks about alleged election fraud as well as reports that Barr knew about a federal investigation into Biden's son Hunter Biden months before the election but had kept it from public view. Trump called the attorney general "a big disappointment" on Twitter. Barr was Trump's second attorney general confirmed by the Senate and one of his staunchest allies in the administration. The attorney general had long faced criticism from Democrats and other outside groups over his efforts to defend the president during his nearly two years leading the Justice Department. Trump and Barr met in mid-December, when the attorney general outlined his decision to step down, Axios reported. The president went on to claim for weeks that the election was stolen, culminating in his remarks at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6 knocking Republicans who planned to vote to certify the Electoral College count shortly before a pro-Trump mob swarmed the Capitol.
Barr is beholden to Bush, not Trump. Barr’s, or more accurately, the deep state’s goal was to contain Trump. I suspect one does not get to be in a position of power under Bush unless you have more to lose than they do, such as Barr. In other words, they had something on him and could “Pull his plug” at a moment’s notice. I wonder if Barr got caught up in a Epstein-like situation? The beauty of Trump is he is not beholden to anyone except the American people. Sure there is ridiculous propaganda that says Russia owns him, but if that were truly the case, why are there still sanctions on Russia? Trump is (Was) a solid, albeit, imperfect, representative for the American people. Now it is Biden’s turn and I hope he outperforms even Trump as President for the benefit of all of us.
Amnesia on the left will not unify this country Not to acknowledge peoples concern about what happen in the months before election day will not work Lets say election day was ok it wont be forgotten what happen before that
Reinforced in the recent book... Barr believed Trump’s claims of election fraud, rigged voting machines were ‘bull’ https://www.washingtontimes.com/new...tion-frau/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS Former Attorney General William Barr believed President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud and rigged voting machines were “bull——” and their disagreement came to a head during a stormy White House meeting in December, according to an upcoming book. Mr. Barr also told Mr. Trump that his legal team contesting the election results in several battleground states was a “clown show,” author and journalist Jonathan Karl wrote in a book excerpt that was published Sunday in The Atlantic. “My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Mr. Barr told Mr. Karl. “If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bull—-.” Mr. Barr angered Mr. Trump by telling an Associated Press reporter on Dec. 1 that the Justice Department had not found evidence of voter fraud in the presidential election at a level significant enough to change the outcome of Mr. Trump’s loss to Democrat Joseph R. Biden. The book excerpt says that then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, had been privately urging Mr. Barr for weeks to go public with his view that Mr. Biden had won fairly. The attorney general met with Mr. Trump and others at the White House just as the news story broke. The red-faced president brought up the AP story with Mr. Barr, according to the account by Mr. Karl. “Did you say that?” Mr. Trump asked. “Yes,” Mr. Barr replied. “How the f—- could you do this to me? Why did you say it?” Mr. Trump asked. “Because it’s true,” Mr. Barr said. Mr. Trump, who was described as “livid,” told his attorney general, “You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump.” Mr. Trump is persisting with his claims that Democrats stole the election in states such as Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania. At a campaign-style rally in Ohio on Saturday night, Mr. Trump reiterated his belief that the stolen election was “the crime of the century.” According to Mr. Karl’s account, Mr. Trump questioned his attorney general during the White House meeting about boxes of ballots brought to a tabulation center in Detroit in the middle of the night, after polls had closed on Election Day. Mr. Barr told the author that he had already looked into the issue and found it to be routine. “In every other county, they count the ballots at the precinct, but in Wayne County, they bring them into one central counting place,” Mr. Barr told Mr. Karl. “So the boxes are coming in all night. The fact that boxes are coming in — well, that’s what they do.” Mr. Barr said he told the president: “It’s the only county with all the boxes going to a central place, and you actually did better there this time around than you did last time. You keep on saying that the Department of Justice is not looking at this stuff, and we are looking at it in a responsible way. But your people keep on shoveling this s—- out.” Mr. Barr also said he looked into allegations that voting machines across the country were rigged to switch Trump votes to Biden votes. He received briefings from cybersecurity experts at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, Mr. Karl wrote. “We realized from the beginning it was just bull——,” Mr. Barr said. “It’s a counting machine, and they save everything that was counted. So you just reconcile the two. There had been no discrepancy reported anywhere, and I’m still not aware of any discrepancy.” During the Dec. 1 meeting, Mr. Barr also told the president that his legal team had essentially lost its chance to raise legal challenges after the election. “This would have taken a crackerjack team with a really coherent and disciplined strategy,” Mr. Barr said he told the president. “Instead, you have a clown show. No self-respecting lawyer is going anywhere near it. It’s just a joke. That’s why you are where you are.” Mr. Trump responded, “You may be right about that,” according to Mr. Karl, who is chief Washington correspondent for ABC News. His book, “Betrayal,” is due out in November.