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WASHINGTON: United States Attorney General Bill Barr said on Tuesday (December 1) that the Justice Department has not found evidence of voter fraud significant enough to reverse the defeat of President Donald Trump by Democrat Joe Biden in the November 3 election.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the Associated Press in an interview.
Barr made the remarks as the Trump campaign persists in trying to prove fraud in key states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, hoping to prevent Biden’s victory from being made official in the Electoral College on Sept. 14. December.
“With all due respect to the Attorney General, there has been no such thing as a Justice Department investigation,” Trump’s attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in a statement in response to Barr’s announcement.
“We will continue our search for the truth through the judicial system and state legislatures,” they said.
Trump’s lawyers have claimed everything from ballot box fillers and fake ballot printing, to thousands of dead who have voted, to vote-counting machines programmed to favor Biden.
In several legal filings, all rejected by the courts, the Trump campaign has sought to invalidate millions of votes for Biden based on claims that lacked evidence.
Barr did not address specific claims.
However, he told the news agency, “There has been a claim that it would be a systemic fraud and it would be the claim that the machines were essentially programmed to skew the election results.”
“And DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to corroborate that,” he said, referring to the departments of Homeland Security and Justice.
Barr, long regarded as a political loyalist to the president, said the only potentially justifiable fraud allegations “are highly particularized to a particular set of circumstances, actors or conduct.”
“They are not systemic accusations,” he said.
“Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up.”
Barr’s comments were reported around the same time he arrived at the White House for unspecified meetings on Tuesday.
Around the time of the election, media reports said Trump was unhappy with the head of the Justice Department for failing to make efforts to support his re-election, and that Barr could be fired.
