In his latest warning about the dangers of mass mail-in voting, Attorney General William P. Barr pointed to a case in Texas that he said highlighted the risk of fraud. “Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr told CNN on Wednesday. “For example, we …
Bill Barr Is No Hero
Bill Barr encouraged and abetted Trump’s obsession with nonexistent voter fraud for months before the election. His comments about Trump's "detachment from reality" are disingenuous now.
Dirty from the Start
June 2020:
Here’s Barr in June 2020 saying that mail-in voting “opens the floodgates of fraud,” even though there is no credible evidence of substantial mail-in voter fraud. Barr voted by mail himself in 2012 & 2019.
As election officials from both parties are scaling up their vote by mail operations ahead of November's election, the president and the attorney …
July 2020:
In July Barr attacked mail-in voting again, this time saying that foreign governments would themselves mail-in phony ballots. Again, mail-in voting has been used for decades w/o evidence or suggestion of this concern.
Washington CNN — 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 upcoming election. Despite having voted by mail himself on previous occasions, President …
September 2020:
PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivered a broadside attack on mail-in voting Thursday, attacking the process used by many …
March 2021:
Remember when Barr was asked directly in a televised interview about whether U.S. intelligence reports pointed to election interference by China or Russia? And he said”China.” An assertion vehemently contradicted by others who saw the classified reports?
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough lashed out at Donald Trump's former attorney general William Barr for "lying through his teeth" about foreign interference …
The Worst Part
Worse, Barr now tells us that he knew the President, with 8 weeks left in office, was volatile and “detached from reality,” and that his response was to resign and then publish a book about it a year later. This is not a heroic legacy.
As we prepare for Monday’s committee hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection, it’s worth dwelling on the legal concept of “willful blindness.” Under it, deliberate ignorance of a particular fact does not constitute exoneration if there was a high — and obvious — probability that this fact was true. The …