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Since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, President Donald Trump has maintained that there has been widespread electoral fraud in several states.
Last Wednesday, Trump posted a 46-minute video in which he repeated the undocumented allegations of voter fraud during this year’s election. Both Facebook and Twitter were quick to point to Trump’s video that the allegations are controversial.
– Revealed “extensive electoral fraud”
United States Attorney General William Barr, one of Trump’s most loyal allies, drew attention this week when he claimed in an interview with the AP news agency that the Justice Department had found no evidence of extensive electoral fraud. that could change the electoral result.
To date, we have not found election fraud on a scale that may have affected the outcome of the elections, Barr told the news agency.
– I met Trump
Despite disagreements between the two above, Barr reiterated several times before the election that postal ballots could be particularly vulnerable to voter fraud as a result of the pandemic.
Only shortly after the Minister of Justice’s interview with the AP was released, was the Minister of Justice observed on his way to the White House.
According to ABC News, Barr was scheduled to meet with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
In the place in the White House, however, the president himself has wanted to speak with Barr after the controversial interview, according to sources with whom ABC News has spoken.
– “Intense”
Hold on to the coup attempt
The channel claims that a source informed about the case described the meeting between Trump and Barr as “intense”. However, the source did not want to go into more detail about what the two should have discussed.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany declined Wednesday afternoon to comment on whether Trump had spoken to Barr since the interview. He also declined to say whether the president still trusts his justice minister or not.
– Reported incorrectly
Shortly after Barr left the White House on Tuesday, a spokesman for the United States Department of Justice issued a statement claiming that the ministry had not completed its investigations into possible voter fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
– Some media have wrongly reported that the ministry has terminated its investigation for electoral fraud, and announced that no fraud was detected during the election, the spokesperson said according to the channel.
– It is not what the AP news agency reported or what the Justice Minister said. The ministry will continue to receive and process all specific and credible allegations of voter fraud as soon as possible, the spokesperson continued.
Almost lost
ABC News has not been able to obtain a comment from the White House on this matter. A spokesman for the Justice Ministry declined to comment further on the case, according to the channel.
He claims that Barr can be fired
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he assumes Attorney General Barr will be the next to be fired by President Donald Trump, “as he now says there is no voter fraud,” according to HuffPost reporter Michael McAuliff.
A chief of administration and two people familiar with the case also tell NBC News that Trump has not ruled out firing his attorney general, but “that there is no great danger that it will happen immediately.”
If Barr is fired, he will not be the first to be fired by Trump after going against the president’s election fraud allegations.
20 days of “fantasy and failure”
Christopher Krebs, who heads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIAS) under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and was responsible for computer security in the elections, dismissed allegations in November that cheating affected elections and vote counting.
Krebs was fired by Trump on November 18.
– Rational
– The madness will continue
American researcher Hilmar Mjelde from the Norce research institute told Dagbladet the following about Trump’s 46-minute video speech on Wednesday night:
– The United States only has to deal with the fact that it has an irrational and undemocratic president who lives in an alternate reality where the north is the south and the black is white. There is no point trying to argue against it.