Attorney General Bill Barr said on Tuesday that the Department of Justice did not find any evidence of widespread voter fraud that will change the outcome of the election.
Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the Associated Press.
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Barr also debunked a conspiracy theory floated by Donald Trump and his allies that Dominion voting machines switched votes from Trump to Biden.
“There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results,” Barr said. “And the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] and DOJ [Department of Justice] have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”
In his off the rails interview with Fox News on Sunday Trump questioned why the DOJ and the FBI were not doing more to investigate his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, saying the bureau was “missing in action.”
Barr was going to the White House after his interview with AP for a previously scheduled meeting.
Reacting to Barr’s first comments about the election which was a rebuke of Trump’s talking points, lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani said, “With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation….”his opinion appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud.”
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Republican senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson told CNN that Barr should “show everybody” his evidence about no mass fraud because “there’s enough suspicions” and “irregularities” there.
