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2021-07-30 at 1:46 PM UTC
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2021-07-30 at 1:51 PM UTC4-years of articles from the corporate media talking about the cyber security nightmare that is the modern US election system leading up to what they now call the "most secure election in American history".
Politico: How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes (Aug 5, 2016)
PBS: Recounts or no, U.S. elections are still vulnerable to hacking (December 26, 2016)
CBS: Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised (Aug 10, 2016)
FOX: Princeton Professor demonstrates how to hack a voting machine (Sep 18, 2016)
Politico: Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked? (June 14, 2017)
CNET: Defcon hackers find it’s very easy to break voting machines (July 30, 2017)
CNN: We watched hackers break into voting machines (Aug 11, 2017)
Slate: America's Voting Systems Are Highly Vulnerable to Hackers (Feb 22, 2018)
NYT: I Hacked an Election. So Can the Russians. (April 5, 2018)
Axios: There's more than one way to hack an election (July 3, 2018)
Newsweek: Election Hacking: Voting-Machine Supplier Admits It Used Hackable Software (July 17, 2018)
Voting Machine Hacks at DefCon: 11-year-old hacks Florida voting systems. (Aug 12, 2018)
Guardian: Why US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks (Aug 13, 2018)
CBS: Why voting machines in the U.S. are easy targets for hackers (September 19, 2018)
Jenny Cohn: The genesis of America’s corrupted computerized election system (Oct 10, 2018)
New York Times: America's Elections Could Be Hacked. Go Vote Anyway (October 19, 2018)
Scientific American: The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines (Nov 1, 2018)
GQ: How to Hack an Election (November 5, 2018)
NYBooks: Voting Machines - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (November 5, 2018)
Salon: Philly ignores cybersecurity and disability access in voting system selection (Feb 16, 2019)
Politico: State election officials opt for 2020 voting machines vulnerable to hacking (March 1, 2019)
TechCrunch: Senators demand to know why election vendors still sell voting machines with ‘known vulnerabilities’ (Mar 27, 2019)
Salon: New "hybrid" voting system can change paper ballot after it's been cast (March 28, 2019)
AP: New Election systems use vulnerable software (July 13, 2019)
Vice: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials (Aug 8, 2019)
CNN: Watch this hacker break into a voting machine (Aug 10, 2019)
Washington Post: Hackers were told to break into U.S. voting machines. They didn't have much trouble. (Aug 12, 2019)
MIT Tech Review: 16 million Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines (Aug 13, 2019)
Salon: Hackers can easily break into voting machines used across the U.S. (August 14, 2019)
FOX: Election machine keys are on the Internet, hackers say (August 22, 2019)
NPR: Cyber Experts Warn Of Vulnerabilities Facing 2020 Election Machines (Sep 4, 2019)
Jenny Cohn: America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core (Sep 7, 2019)
Washington Post: U.S. voting machines vulnerable to hacks in 2020, researchers find (Sep 27, 2019)
Motherjones: Researchers Assembled over 100 Voting Machines. Hackers Broke Into Every Single One. (Sep 27, 2019)
The Hill: Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents (Oct 2, 2019)
RollingStone: John Oliver Breaks Down Faulty Election Machine Security on 'Last Week Tonight' (November 4, 2019)
Bloomberg: Expensive, Glitchy Voting Machines Expose 2020 Hacking Risks (November 8, 2019)
NYBooks: How New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy (Dec 17, 2019)
Washington Post: Voting machines touted as secure option are actually vulnerable to hacking, study finds (Jan 8, 2020)
NBC: 'Online and vulnerable' - Experts find nearly three dozens U.S. voting systems connected to internet (Jan 10, 2020)
AP: Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned (Feb 23, 2020)
The Guardian: Hack the vote - terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are (Mar 26, 2020)
AJC: In high-stakes election, Georgia’s voting system vulnerable to cyberattack (Oct 23, 2020)
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2021-07-30 at 2:04 PM UTCwhen right rang republicans invade the white house it's an "attack"
but when an army of femboys invade all of white society and force the kids to eat hormones THATS NOT AN ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN VALUES??? HELLO????
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2021-07-30 at 2:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood when right rang republicans invade the white house it's an "attack"
but when an army of femboys invade all of white society and force the kids to eat hormones THATS NOT AN ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN VALUES??? HELLO????
other people need tranny girlfriends too. -
2021-07-30 at 3:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Business Insider
Trump called his acting attorney general almost daily to pressure him into investigate 2020 election-fraud claims, and was ignored every time, report says
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Trump had replaced then-Attorney General Bill Barr with Rosen during his final 30 days in office, after Barr said the Justice Department had not uncovered any evidence of voter fraud on a scale that would delegitimize Biden's victory.
(((Rosen)))
That's one thing I truly don't get about Trump. You're a Manhattan real estate mogul. You grew up in New York City. And you appointed a jedi and expected fair play? Truth? Honesty? Patriotism? Are you an idiot? -
2021-07-30 at 3:35 PM UTCOf course he is.
Isn't it obvious to all by now? -
2021-07-30 at 4:26 PM UTCTrump is playing them all. Like fiddles.
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2021-07-30 at 5:15 PM UTCfiddler on the whitehouse roofThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-07-30 at 6:17 PM UTCMake
All Americans
Get on board that Trump truly is
A loser scumbag
The New York Times
Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes Show
Katie Benner
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt even though they had found no instances of widespread fraud, so that he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results, according to new documents provided to lawmakers and obtained by The New York Times.
The demands are the latest example of President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.© Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times The demands are the latest example of President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.
The demands were an extraordinary instance of a president interfering with an agency that is typically more independent from the White House to advance his personal agenda. They are also the latest example of Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.
The exchange unfolded during a phone call on Dec. 27 in which Mr. Trump pressed the acting attorney general at the time, Jeffrey A. Rosen, and his deputy, Richard P. Donoghue, on voter fraud claims that the department had disproved. Mr. Donoghue warned that the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. Mr. Trump replied that he did not expect that, according to notes Mr. Donoghue took memorializing the conversation.
Richard P. Donoghue, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, pushed back on Mr. Trump’s allegations of election fraud in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.
“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” and to congressional allies, Mr. Donoghue wrote in summarizing Mr. Trump’s response.
Mr. Trump did not name the lawmakers, but at other points during the call, he mentioned Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, whom he described as a “fighter”; Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who at the time promoted the idea that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump; and Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, whom Mr. Trump praised for “getting to bottom of things.”
The notes connect Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress with his campaign to pressure Justice Department officials to help undermine, or even nullify, the election results.
Mr. Jordan ultimately voted to overturn the election results in key states, but has downplayed his role in the president’s pressure campaign. “Congressman Jordan did not, has not, and would not pressure anyone at the Justice Department about the 2020 election,” said his spokesman, Russell Dye. “He continues to agree with President Trump that it is perfectly appropriate to raise concerns about election integrity.”
Mr. Perry and Mr. Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Mr. Perry has continued to assert Mr. Trump won, but has not been tied directly to the White House effort to keep him in office. And Mr. Johnson, whom Mr. Trump recently endorsed as he weighs whether to seek a third term, maintains that it is reasonable to have questions about the integrity of the election, though he has recognized Joseph R. Biden Jr. as president.
The Justice Department provided Mr. Donoghue’s notes to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to unlawfully reverse the election results.
Typically, the department has fought to keep secret any accounts of private discussions between a president and his cabinet to avoid setting a precedent that would prevent officials in future administrations from candidly advising presidents out of concern that their conversations would later be made public.
But handing over the notes to Congress is part of a pattern of allowing scrutiny of Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. The Biden Justice Department also told Mr. Rosen, Mr. Donoghue and other former officials this week that they could provide unrestricted testimony to investigators with the House Oversight and Reform and the Senate Judiciary Committees.
The department reasoned that congressional investigators were examining potential wrongdoing by a sitting president, an extraordinary circumstance, according to letters sent to the former officials. Because executive privilege is meant to benefit the country, rather than the president as an individual, invoking it over Mr. Trump’s efforts to push his personal agenda would be inappropriate, the department concluded.
“These handwritten notes show that President Trump directly instructed our nation’s top law enforcement agency to take steps to overturn a free and fair election in the final days of his presidency,” Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York and chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said in a statement.
Mr. Trump’s conversation with Mr. Rosen and Mr. Donoghue reflected his single-minded focus on overturning the election results. At one point, Mr. Trump claimed voter fraud in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona, which he called “corrupted elections.” Mr. Donoghue pushed back.
“Much of the info you’re getting is false,” Mr. Donoghue said, adding that the department had conducted “dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews” and had not found evidence to support his claims. “We look at allegations but they don’t pan out,” the officials told Mr. Trump, according to the notes.
The department found that the error rate of ballot counting in Michigan was 0.0063 percent, not the 68 percent that the president asserted; it did not find evidence of a conspiracy theory that an employee in Pennsylvania had tampered with ballots; and after examining video and interviewing witnesses, it found no evidence of ballot fraud in Fulton County, Ga., according to the notes.
Mr. Trump, undeterred, brushed off the department’s findings. “Ok fine — but what about the others?” Mr. Donoghue wrote in his notes describing the president’s remarks. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Donoghue to travel to Fulton County to verify signatures on ballots.
The people “saying that the election isn’t corrupt are corrupt,” Mr. Trump told the officials, adding that they needed to act. “Not much time left.”
At another point, Mr. Donoghue said that the department could quickly verify or disprove the assertion that more ballots were cast in Pennsylvania than there are voters.
“Should be able to check on that quickly, but understand that the D.O.J. can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, doesn’t work that way,” Mr. Donoghue wrote in his notes.
The officials also told Mr. Trump that the Justice Department had no evidence to support a lawsuit regarding the election results. “We are not in a position based on the evidence,” they said. “We can only act on the actual evidence developed.”
Mr. Trump castigated the officials, saying that “thousands of people called” their local U.S. attorney’s offices to complain about the election and that “nobody trusts the F.B.I.” He said that “people are angry — blaming D.O.J. for inaction.”
“You guys may not be following the internet the way I do,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document.
In a moment of foreshadowing, Mr. Trump said, “people tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in,” referring to the acting chief of the Justice Department’s civil division, who had also encouraged department officials to intervene in the election. “People want me to replace D.O.J. leadership.”
“You should have the leadership you want,” Mr. Donoghue replied. But it “won’t change the dept’s position.”
Mr. Donoghue and Mr. Rosen did not know that Mr. Perry had introduced Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump. Exactly one week later, they would be forced to fight Mr. Clark for their jobs in an Oval Office showdown.
During the call, Mr. Trump also told the Justice Department officials to “figure out what to do” with Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s son. “People will criticize the D.O.J. if he’s not investigated for real,” he told them, violating longstanding guidelines against White House intervention in criminal investigations or other law enforcement actions.
Two days after the phone call with Mr. Trump, Mr. Donoghue took notes of a meeting between Justice Department officials: Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows; the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone; and the White House deputy counsel Patrick Philbin met to discuss a conspiracy theory known as Italygate, which asserts without evidence that people in Italy used military technology to remotely tamper with voting machines in the United States.
The Justice Department officials told the White House that they had assigned someone to look into the matter, according to the notes and a person briefed on the meeting. They did not mention that the department was looking into the theory to debunk it, the person said. -
2021-07-30 at 6:27 PM UTCMake
America
Give Trump the finger
Again
Business Insider
Democratic voters likely tipped a Texas special election against the Trump-backed candidate as a 'f--- you' to the former president: report
bmetzger@insider.com (Bryan Metzger)
Democrats likely tipped a Texas special election away from a Trump-endorsed candidate, according to the Texas Tribune.
Jake Ellzey won Tuesday's special election over fellow Republican Susan Wright.
Rep. Ellzey was sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday.
A new Republican member of Congress from Texas likely won his election thanks to support from Democrats, according to a report from the Texas Tribune.
Rep. Jake Ellzey, who defeated Trump-backed candidate Susan Wright in a special election in Texas's 6th congressional district on Tuesday, was sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday morning.
The special election was triggered after Ron Wright, a Republican who had held the Dallas-area seat since 2019, died of COVID-19 in February. His widow Susan soon entered the special election to succeed the late congressman, earning the backing of former-President Trump and the Club for Growth, a conservative outside group.
Though several Democratic candidates entered the race, Wright and Ellzey came in first and second in a May 1st primary election. But Democrats apparently still found a way to influence the race.
Allison Campolo, the chairwoman of the Tarrant County Democratic Party, told the Texas Tribune that Democrats could've approached the election either by voting for Ellzey as a way to "stick it to Trump" or by casting a blank ballot; just 83 people opted to do the latter in Tarrant County.
Democratic candidate Jana Lynne Sanchez, who ran in the special election and was locked out of the runoff by just a few hundred votes, put it more bluntly. "It was basically a f--- you to Trump," she said.
Outside groups also reportedly courted Democrats on Ellzey's behalf, with one anonymous text sent to voters on election day addressed to "LIBERALS" that said "today is our final chance to defeat Trump-endorsed conservative Susan Wright."
A campaign worker tipped off the Wright campaign about a potential loss on Tuesday afternoon, reportedly telling her campaign manager that voters entering polling places were "all wearing masks," the Texas Tribune reported.
Trump reportedly blamed the loss on the conservative Club for Growth, even while avoiding casting the election as a rebuke. "This is the only race we've ... this is not a loss, again, I don't want to claim it is a loss, this was a win. …The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win," he told Axios. -
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2021-07-30 at 10:20 PM UTC
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2021-07-30 at 10:50 PM UTCIf you're a politician, you're automatically a piece of shit. Maybe not right away, but it's a sure thing you will be.
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2021-07-31 at 11:28 AM UTC
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2021-07-31 at 1:24 PM UTCNewsweek
Ted Lieu Weighing Legal Ramifications of Reported Trump Justice Department Call
Brendan Cole
Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) has said "we're looking into" the legal consequences of claims former President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election "corrupt."
Representative Ted Lieu at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC in February 2021. He has said "we're looking into" the legal ramifications of a report ex-President Donald Trump asked for the 2020 election results to be called "corrupt."
The Californian Democrat responded to Friday's release by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee of handwritten notes outlining a phone call between Trump and then-acting Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 2020.
The notes taken by Richard Donoghue, then Rosen's deputy who was on the call, state that Trump had said: "Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the election he lost to President Joe Biden was rigged, despite no evidence of fraud on a level that would have changed the outcome.
Democrats have seized on the documented phone conversation, due to the suggestion that Rosen and Donoghue were being asked by the ex-president to back his stance on the results.
18 USC § 610 makes it a crime “for any person to…attempt to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, any employee of the Federal Government…to engage in, or not to engage in, any political activity”. Does former President’s misconduct violate this law? We’re looking into it. https://t.co/Eiei7hviE3
18 USC § 595 makes it a crime for a person employed by a US Dept or agency to use “official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting…the election of any candidate for the office of President”. Does this law apply to the former President? We’re looking into it. https://t.co/etB8lo3GGE
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who chairs the committee which is examining the attempts to overturn the 2020 results, said in a statement the notes showed Trump "directly instructed our nation's top law enforcement agency to take steps to overturn a free and fair election."
Lieu suggested on Friday that a probe was underway into the legal ramifications of the phone call, in referring to the part of the U.S. code dealing with interference by administrative employees of federal, state, or territorial governments.
"18 USC § 595 makes it a crime for a person employed by a US Dept or agency to use 'official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting...the election of any candidate for the office of President," he tweeted.
"Does this law apply to the former President? We're looking into it," Lieu added, sharing an Associated Press article detailing the notes of the phone call.
In a follow up tweet, he cited the part of the U.S. Code that refers to "coercion of political activity."
"18 USC § 610 makes it a crime 'for any person to...attempt to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, any employee of the Federal Government...to engage in, or not to engage in, any political activity'.
"Does former President's misconduct violate this law? We're looking into it," Lieu added, although he did not specify whether he was referring to the probe by the oversight and government reform committee, of which he is not a member.
Committee chairwoman Maloney also said in her statement Friday that interviews with key witnesses have been scheduled "to investigate the full extent of the former President's corruption."
"I will exercise every tool at my disposal to ensure all witness testimony is secured without delay," she added. -
2021-07-31 at 1:28 PM UTC
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2021-07-31 at 1:35 PM UTCBusiness Insider
Donald Trump did not appear to donate his salary from his last 6 months in office as promised, says report
ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)
Donald Trump promised to give away his presidential salary while in office.
The Washington Post was unable to account for his salary for his final 6 months.
Trump had become increasingly bitter about not receiving praise for donating his earnings.
It is unclear what Donald Trump did with his salary from his last 6 months in office, which he promised to donate, according to The Washington Post.
While in office Donald Trump pledged to give away all of his $400,000 annual presidential salary. For the first three and a half of his presidency, he donated the money to federal agencies.
The Washington Post said it surveyed all major federal agencies and none reported receiving anything from Trump after a gift in July 2020.
The paper said it could not account for the the last $220,000 of his salary.
During the campaign trail in 2015 Donald Trump said that he would not accept a presidential salary if elected. The Constitution does not allow a president to forgo a salary, so Trump chose to donate his earnings to federal agencies instead.
While in office he donated $100,000 quarterly payments to federal departments such as the Department of Veterans and the Department of Health and Human Services.
His last known gift was to the National Park Service on July 23, 2020, according to government documents.
Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold said that Trump had become increasingly bitter about not getting praise for donating his salary.
At a campaign rally in Arizona in October 2020 Trump said, "I'm the only president that did not accept a salary, which surprised me. It's $450,000. The only reason I mention it is they never talk about it."
Trump frequently claimed that no other president had ever refused their salary, which is untrue. Both Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy did the same.
Trump also got his salary amount wrong. The president receives $400,000 annually.
Despite donating his salary, Trump still continued to make money from his various businesses while in office. According to one review, Trump made $1.6 billion while he was president, meaning his donated salary accounted for 0.1% of his earnings.
The Washington Post clarified that their inability to account for his final 6 months of salary did not mean he definitely did not donate it. However, the lack of confirmation is unusual, and a marked difference from his first 3 and a half years in office.
The paper said it also asked Trump's business, and the former lawyer who helped arrange the donations, about the money, and neither responded.
Trump continues to receive a presidential pension of more than $220,000 a year. -
2021-07-31 at 2:05 PM UTCJustice Says IRS Must Give Trump Tax Returns to Congress
The Justice Department, in a reversal, says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department, in a reversal, says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records.
In a memo dated Friday, Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel said the committee chairman “has invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former President’s tax information” and that under federal law, “Treasury must furnish the information to the Committee.”
The 39-page memo is signed by Dawn Johnsen, installed by the Biden administration as the acting head of the legal counsel office.
During the Trump administration, then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he wouldn’t turn over the tax returns because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats who control the House of Representatives for partisan reasons.
The committee sued for the records under a federal law that says the Internal Revenue Service “shall furnish” the returns of any taxpayer to a handful of top lawmakers. The committee said it needed Trump’s taxes for an investigation into whether he complied with tax law.
Trump’s Justice Department defended Mnuchin’s refusal and Trump himself also intervened to try to prevent the materials from being turned over to Congress. Under a court order from January, Trump would have 72 hours to object after the Biden administration formally changes the government’s position in the lawsuit.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. already has obtained copies of Trump’s personal and business tax records as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Trump tried to prevent his accountants from handing over the documents, taking the issue to the Supreme Court. The justices rejected Trump’s argument that he had broad immunity as president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the tax returns remain of interest to lawmakers. “Access to former President Trump’s tax returns is a matter of national security. The American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president,” Pelosi said in a statement.
The issue has its roots in the 2016 presidential campaign, when Trump claimed that he could not release his taxes due to an IRS audit. -
2021-07-31 at 3:48 PM UTCMake
All of the out-of-control spitters talking in the third person
Go
Away
Business Insider
Trump started speaking in the third person during a heated discussion with Bill Barr regarding the election results, book says
insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman) 1 hr ago
Trump spoke in the third person during a heated discussion with Bill Barr over voter fraud, per a new book.
Trump was incensed that Barr dismissed claims of mass voter irregularities during an AP interview.
Barr eventually resigned from his post just weeks after the AP interview.
Last December, then-Attorney General Bill Barr sat down with Associated Press reporter Michael Balsamo, where he essentially rejected then-President Donald Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Barr said that the Department of Justice had looked into credible claims of fraud, but notably revealed that "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election."
After the interview, Barr then headed to the White House for a previously scheduled meeting with chief of staff Mark Meadows, where he was told by Meadows that Trump would be "livid" at the election-related statements from the interview, according to a new book by Washington Post reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
Barr was told by White House counsel Pat Cipollone that Trump wanted to see him in his private dining room, where the president was watching the right-leaning One America News Network (OANN).
The scene was tense, as "everything about the president telegraphed that he was in a barely contained rage," and even resulted in him switching to the third person, which Leonnig and Rucker detailed in "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year."
Trump immediately questioned Barr about the Associated Press interview, where he threw cold water on the president's ongoing voter-fraud claims.
"Bill did, you say this?" Trump asked in a "sharp and quick" manner, according to the book.
After Barr confirmed that he had indeed made the statement, Trump questioned him again.
"How could you say this?" Trump said, according to the book. "Why didn't you just not answer the question?"
The president raised his voice and peculiarly began to speak in the third person.
"There's no reason for you to have said this!" he said, according to the book. "You must hate Trump!"
With OANN in the background, Trump "started yelling" and "was so angry his words came out like spit," according to the book.
Trump then pointed to the television screen, as OANN was discussing election conspiracies that Pennsylvania backdated late-arriving ballots, as well as allegations that Fulton County, Georgia, illegally added ballots to their tally. Barr told Trump that the Justice Department reviewed the claims and found no evidence that such events occurred.
"We've looked into these things and they're nonsense," Barr said, according to the book.
After the back-and-forth, Barr reiterated to Trump that there was simply no evidence to support the most prominent allegations.
"Mr. President, I'm not up here to say there was no fraud," the attorney general said at the time, according to the book. "There may very well have been fraud. I suspect there was fraud, maybe more than usual. But there's no evidence of substantial fraud that would change the election, and your problem is you have five weeks. The reason you're sitting where you are today is because you had five weeks for your lawyers to mount a strategy … whereby you can turn around the election."
While Trump continued to act in an "explosive and crazed" manner, Barr sought to remain "calm and deliberate," according to the book.
Nearly two weeks later, Trump announced that Barr would be departing the administration shortly before Christmas, lauding the attorney general for doing "an outstanding job." -
2021-07-31 at 4:20 PM UTCWhat does Biden do with his salary?
