In his first public comments about his break from Donald Trump following the presidential election, former Attorney General Bill Barr says in an interview published Sunday by The Atlantic that he was skeptical of the ex-president’s election fraud claims long before he publicly dispelled them and green-lighted a Justice Department probe, which he claimed he did in part to help him stand up to Trump.
Barr, who was widely considered one of Trump’s closest allies throughout his time in office, said he thought the election fraud claims were “bullsh-t,” according to an interview conducted by ABC News‘ Jon Karl that appears in The Atlantic.
“My suspicion all along was that there was nothing there,” Barr said, noting he also personally looked into several of Trump’s claims—including supposed “ballot dumps” in Detroit—which he quickly found not to be true.
Nonetheless, in addition to his own search, Barr green-lighted a Department of Justice probe into the lies, giving them a veneer of validity, before publicly declaring there was no widespread voter fraud nearly a month after the election., in a Dec. 1 interview with the Associated Press.
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