Lawyers Sound the Alarm as 'Off the Rails' Attorney General Barr Caters to President Trump's Baseles

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Fraud Claims

Attorney General Bill Barr, ever the company man in service of the incumbent Republican president, has reportedly authorized the activation of the Department of Justice to investigate President Donald Trump’s completely unsubstantiated stolen election claims. Barr’s move to insert himself in election matters, though unsurprising to some and to others an inevitability based on his prior decisions, sparked widespread outrage on Monday.

President Trump is clearly not interested in conceding the election to Joe Biden, who has already given a victory speech as president-elect. As Trump campaign lawyers continue filing extreme lawsuits, Attorney General Barr has been tapped to pinch hit, according to the Associated Press:

The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult on Monday, Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe allegations of voter fraud and President Donald Trump firing the Pentagon chief and blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team.

Despite little evidence of fraud, Barr signed off on investigations into the unsubstantiated claims made repeatedly by Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Barr sent a memo to U.S. Attorneys on Monday empowering them to investigate “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities. According to the Journal, the memo say prosecutors’ investigations “may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State” (there has been no evidence in any of the Trump campaign’s lawsuits to support this).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyers-sound-the-alarm-as-off-the-rails-attorney-general-barr-caters-to-president-trump-s-baseless-fraud-claims/ar-BB1aQS5V?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

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1. The big 'IF' says it all.

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3. Every reporter is ignoring that word

It’s really pissing me off. Completely changes the context

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4. We lawyers DON'T ignore that word!

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7. Exactly.

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2. if if if if if if if if if if

if if if if if if if if if if

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5. An investigation with integrity would flag DeJoy first. /nt

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6. K&R