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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (22875)12/21/2020 1:33:54 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 46382
 
Barr and Pompeo have reached their Trump stopping point. The cultists on SI hate them for it now. You have to be willing to put Trump before EVERYTHING to be a loyal member of the cult. Its Trump Uber Alles.

Barr:

-Will not appoint special counsel on "election fraud." If there were a reason, he would have done it.

- No evidence of widespread election fraud

- No basis for seizing voting machines

- No reason to appoint special counsel on Hunter Biden

Bill Barr: ‘No Basis’ for Seizing Voting MachinesSHOT DOWN

Justin Baragona Contributing Editor
Published Dec. 21, 2020 11:47AM ET

Outgoing Attorney General William Barr, who will officially leave his position on Dec. 23, said on Monday that there is “no basis” behind the idea Team Trump floated for the Department of Homeland Security to overtake voting machines. According to multiple reports, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani called Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli last week and asked about seizing machines as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election he lost.

Trump, furthermore, inquired about issuing an executive order to seize the machines and appointing former campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who has peddled unhinged conspiracies about corrupt voting software “rigging” the election, as a special counsel on election fraud. Powell has held several meetings with Trump in recent days.

“I see no basis now for seizing machines by the federal government, the wholesale seizures of machines by the federal government,” Barr said during a Monday morning press conference. The attorney general also stood by his earlier comments that the Justice Department hasn’t found “systemic or broad-based fraud that would affect the outcome of the election.”

As for the president’s desire to empower Powell to investigate unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud, Barr waved off that idea: “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool, I would name one, but I haven’t and I don’t plan to.”
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