Barr: "It was all BS"

The whole article:

"William Barr said he believed it was his obligation to publicly state that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 no matter how angry it made then-President Donald Trump, the former attorney general is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told Jonathan Karl in the article headlined "William Barr Speaks."

Barr added: “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 bulls---.”


The former attorney general told Karl that he knew Trump would push him to conduct investigations and confirm the president's frequently stated belief that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him — and that Barr suspected from the get-go that no widespread fraud had taken place.

He also said that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell — understandably concerned about upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia — encouraged him to speak out about the integrity of the election.

Barr's conclusion that there was no widespread fraud, which he shared with an Associated Press reporter at the start of December, drew the wrath of Trump, who spoke of himself in the third person.

“You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump," Barr quoted Trump as saying in a subsequent meeting.

Karl wrote: "Barr thought that the president was trying to control himself, but he seemed angrier than he had ever seen him."

Barr said he also told Trump that the president had undermined his own efforts by launching a scattershot, incoherent legal team ("a clown show"😉 to challenge election results — something which he said Trump did not disagree with."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/27/barr-atlantic-trump-election-496513

The Donald couldn't even get a hack like Barr to go along with the ridiculous lies that most Republicans have brought into. And it was all about him "You must hate Trump".

Pathetic.

@no1marauder said
The whole article:

"William Barr said he believed it was his obligation to publicly state that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 no matter how angry it made then-President Donald Trump, the former attorney general is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told Jonathan Karl in the a ...[text shortened]... hat most Republicans have brought into. And it was all about him "You must hate Trump".

Pathetic.

Barr doesn't deserve credit for acknowledging the obvious.

Republicans like to pat themselves on the back when they state something factual that everyone knows but Trump or the GOP doesn't like. I would've had more respect for Barr saying this was "BS" before Trump left office.

But hey, take what you can get, right? Can't wait for the Republican brave enough to admit windmills don't cause cancer.

@vivify said
Barr doesn't deserve credit for acknowledging the obvious.

Republicans like to pat themselves on the back when they state something factual that everyone knows but Trump or the GOP doesn't like. I would've had more respect for Barr saying this was "BS" before Trump left office.

But hey, take what you can get, right? Can't wait for the Republican brave enough to admit windmills don't cause cancer.

@no1marauder said
Barr, to his credit, resigned rather than have the DOJ file legal documents supporting Trump's conspiracy theories and lies.

@no1marauder said
The whole article:

"William Barr said he believed it was his obligation to publicly state that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 no matter how angry it made then-President Donald Trump, the former attorney general is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told Jonathan Karl in the a ...[text shortened]... hat most Republicans have brought into. And it was all about him "You must hate Trump".

Pathetic.

@mott-the-hoople said
expect many hit pieces as they prepare for the arizona audit results.

@no1marauder said
I bet they'll be as Earth-shaking as the indictments of Obama, Biden, Hillary and the rest that you expected from the Durham report.

@mott-the-hoople said
expect many hit pieces as they prepare for the arizona audit results.

@no1marauder said
The whole article:

"William Barr said he believed it was his obligation to publicly state that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 no matter how angry it made then-President Donald Trump, the former attorney general is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told Jonathan Karl in the a ...[text shortened]... hat most Republicans have brought into. And it was all about him "You must hate Trump".

Pathetic.

@no1marauder said
The whole article:

"William Barr said he believed it was his obligation to publicly state that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 no matter how angry it made then-President Donald Trump, the former attorney general is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told Jonathan Karl in the a ...[text shortened]... hat most Republicans have brought into. And it was all about him "You must hate Trump".

Pathetic.

@metal-brain said
He is a CIA yes man, not what I would call a hack. It doesn't surprise me when a CIA man is pro establishment.

https://govbanknotes.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/meet-william-barr-the-man-you-never-got-to-know/

Pompeo is CIA as well, but he made public statements backing up Trump's claim he won the disputed election. That surprised me. Do you think Pompeo was being sincere about it?

@suzianne said
The only result from the shenanigans going on in Arizona with the ballots and the voting machines is that now Arizona will have to buy new voting machines because no one is sure what they did to the voting machines while they had possession of them with no oversight.

That's it. Nothing this sham group can bloviate about regarding the ballots will have any shred of credibility, and it certainly will not overturn any results.

@suzianne said
Yeah, "any day now".

@no1marauder said
I bet they'll be as Earth-shaking as the indictments of Obama, Biden, Hillary and the rest that you expected from the Durham report.