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applegrove

(118,462 posts)
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:15 PM Oct 2021

Trump Is Now Accusing William Barr Of Rigging The Election For Biden

 BY JASON EASLEY at PolliticusUSA

Trump Is Now Accusing William Barr Of Rigging The Election For Biden

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/10/27/trump-is-now-accusing-william-barr-of-rigging-the-election-for-biden.html

"SNIP......

In a letter to the editor that could only be described as deranged, Trump wrote to The Wall Street Journal that Barr rigged the election for Biden.

Trump wrote in The Wall Street Journal a list of conspiracies in Pennsylvania that caused him to lose the state:

Numerous reports and sworn affidavits attested to poll watcher intimidation and harassment, many by brute force.

• Attorney General Bill Barr ordered U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain to stand down and not investigate election irregularities.

......SNIP"

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Trump Is Now Accusing William Barr Of Rigging The Election For Biden (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2021 OP
Sadly, the outrageous 'blame' game works. elleng Oct 2021 #1
Even when...... SergeStorms Oct 2021 #32
Yes, I think he's gone from compulsive lying PatSeg Oct 2021 #34
Probably shouldn't accuse the person who knows where all the bodies are buried... nt AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2021 #2
At some point . . . ? empedocles Oct 2021 #3
Good point PatSeg Oct 2021 #35
who really writes trump's letters? IcyPeas Oct 2021 #4
Exactly. YDogg Oct 2021 #11
Why is he blaming Bill Barr at this time? Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #5
I believe it's because Barr refused to accept Trump's lies about Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2021 #9
Yes looks like payback time. Trump is looking more unhinged by the day. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #12
Is Trump not crossing the line and Jarqui Oct 2021 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Oct 2021 #24
You can proceed with defamation of a public figure if Jarqui Oct 2021 #29
trump shows how its done with a page out of the nazi playbook circa 1932 nt msongs Oct 2021 #7
And Barr slams his bourbon on the rocks down hard... crud Oct 2021 #8
Absolutely never PatSeg Oct 2021 #36
My mind immediately goes to how Barr abridged Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2021 #53
Yes and this is a man PatSeg Oct 2021 #54
Nuttier than a squrriel turd. Botany Oct 2021 #10
Sleep with dogs get fleas. Serves him right. nt JanMichael Oct 2021 #13
Here's the crazy letter: sinkingfeeling Oct 2021 #14
So he's just pulling a bunch of zuul Oct 2021 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Oct 2021 #25
Mr. Trump. SergeStorms Oct 2021 #33
Thanks for posting PatSeg Oct 2021 #37
THIS. calimary Oct 2021 #39
That was my first reaction PatSeg Oct 2021 #40
And not a shred of evidence...just fake numbers drawn out of thin air and thrown together... SWBTATTReg Oct 2021 #46
So mail in ballots are unconstitutional? Botany Oct 2021 #47
Oh boy mvd Oct 2021 #15
Barr needs to let it rip. C_U_L8R Oct 2021 #16
He would need immunity. Mr.Bill Oct 2021 #28
I think he can Dorian Gray Oct 2021 #30
I can't help but think that this is a coordinated effort Nittersing Oct 2021 #17
organized, calculated, and coordinated nationwide. whatta concept nt msongs Oct 2021 #20
I have never been so sick of anyone as I am of that leftyladyfrommo Oct 2021 #18
Oh, he will go away eventually PatSeg Oct 2021 #38
I don't think he's human. I think he's a reptillian alien leftyladyfrommo Oct 2021 #41
Yeah, that has dawned on me as well PatSeg Oct 2021 #42
Anyone that can see a man fall and hit his head leftyladyfrommo Oct 2021 #43
Ah yes or maybe he died years ago PatSeg Oct 2021 #48
Oh that is DELICIOUS!! How's thing's goin' Billy-Bob Barr? Maru Kitteh Oct 2021 #21
There is no honor among thieves. GoCubsGo Oct 2021 #22
Bwah!1 UTUSN Oct 2021 #23
Anything's better for the former guy than admitting he lost fair and square gratuitous Oct 2021 #26
No one is out of his crosshairs. He would personally throw his kids under the bus. spanone Oct 2021 #27
Typical Republican move Champp Oct 2021 #31
Bill traitor barr was okay to allow the rest of the world to suffer the fool trump samsingh Oct 2021 #44
A better point toughtony Oct 2021 #45
Yes indeed gratuitous Oct 2021 #49
For as long as he lives, Trump will never stop pushing these lies, never. BeckyDem Oct 2021 #50
Anyone believe that next Wednesday will be a YEAR of this "stolen election" $hit?? Bengus81 Oct 2021 #51
Whiney Piece of Treasonous Shit.. Cha Oct 2021 #52
I'm honestly still shocked that Barr didn't rig the election *for* him budkin Oct 2021 #55
But, but ... Trump picked only the best people !!! Ultimately, then, NCjack Oct 2021 #56
Why did the WSJ publish such deranged shit? Sanity Claws Oct 2021 #57
I need you to know that the Deranged Shit Association...of which I am a member... Stuart G Oct 2021 #58

SergeStorms

(19,148 posts)
32. Even when......
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 09:59 AM
Oct 2021

"someone" keeps expanding the list of those who sabotaged his losing campaign, to include the very people who enabled his lawless escapades to begin with?

He's down to his family members now, and I imagine they'll be next.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
34. Yes, I think he's gone from compulsive lying
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 10:21 AM
Oct 2021

to absolute derangement and I think he is just going to just get worse. I won't be surprised if and when he goes after his own family as well. At his core, he knows they don't care a whit for him and the feeling is mutual. What a miserable, pathetic human being.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
35. Good point
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 10:23 AM
Oct 2021

He's getting more and more reckless all the time. He has made so many enemies, it is only a matter of time before they start turning on him en masse.

Jarqui

(10,119 posts)
6. Is Trump not crossing the line and
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:26 PM
Oct 2021

and defaming a public figure, Barr, with malice there ?

If any lawyer knew how to depose Trump and expose a whole lotta of illegal crap with Trump, Barr would have to be near or at the top of the list.

The only way to avoid it would be if Trump has dirt on Barr.

This could get kind of interesting.

I strongly suspect Trump is a like a cat toy. The GOP are letting him do his thing to distract the media while they rig the election and run with Gov moRon DeSatan or someone like that.

Response to Jarqui (Reply #6)

Jarqui

(10,119 posts)
29. You can proceed with defamation of a public figure if
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 11:53 PM
Oct 2021

one can demonstrate malice - ill will or a reckless disregard for the truth (stated loosely).

On the latter, Trump lied or gave misleading statements about 38,000 times in the Oval Office. Is there anyone in history with a more reckless disregard for the truth?

I agree that it is not an easy thing to prove generally which is why few try but in this circumstance, Trump is on a slippery steep slope when it comes to anything but a reckless disregard for the truth. It follows in the wake of so many other big lies about the election that got flushed out in about 60 court cases that Trump lost.

I'm not guaranteeing anything but I think a half assed lawyer could make a pretty good contest of this and do the thing Trump would have to fear: being put on the stand to testify in a deposition - particularly when the scrutiny on Jan 6th is going on. Barr's statement of claim could be devastating.

crud

(613 posts)
8. And Barr slams his bourbon on the rocks down hard...
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:34 PM
Oct 2021

looks me in the eye and says...I thought I was done with that stupid ass piece of shit.

He knew at that moment, no matter what he does, he will never be done. No one will.

- a dramatization

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
36. Absolutely never
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 11:03 AM
Oct 2021

Once you take up with a monster like Trump, you are tainted for life. Barr will never get rid of the stench. Some bad choices cannot be be reversed.

sinkingfeeling

(51,436 posts)
14. Here's the crazy letter:
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:40 PM
Oct 2021

n your editorial “The Election for Pennsylvania’s High Court” (Oct. 25), you state the fact that a court wrongly said mail-in ballots could be counted after Election Day. “This didn’t matter,” you add, “because Mr. Biden won the state by 80,555, but the country is lucky the election wasn’t closer. If the election had hung on a few thousand Pennsylvanians, the next President might have been picked by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Well actually, the election was rigged, which you, unfortunately, still haven’t figured out. Here are just a few examples of how determinative the voter fraud in Pennsylvania was:

• 71,893 mail-in ballots were returned after Nov. 3, 2020, at 8 p.m., according to Audit the Vote PA. None of these should have been counted according to the U.S. Constitution and the state Legislature, which didn’t approve this change.

• 10,515 mail-in votes from people who do not exist on the Pennsylvania voter rolls at all.

• 120,000 excess voters are not yet accounted for by the Pennsylvania Department of State—far more votes than voters!

• From 2016 to 2020, during my term as president, Republicans out-registered Democrats 21 to 1. This translated to a 659,145-vote lead at 12:38 a.m. on election night, with “Trump” up a full 15 points.

• Hundreds of thousands of votes were unlawfully counted in secret, in defiance of a court order, while Republican poll watchers were thrown out of buildings where voting took place.

• 39,771 people who registered to vote after the Oct. 19, 2020, deadline, still voted in the 2020 election—simply not allowed.

Highly respected Audit the Vote PA found numerous data integrity problems the Pennsylvania Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) system, including:

• 305,874 voters were removed from the rolls after the election on Nov. 3rd.

• 51,792 voters with inactive voter registrations at the end of October 2020 nevertheless voted.

• 57,000 duplicate registrations.

• 55,823 voters who were backfilled into the SURE system.

• 58,261 first-time voters 70 years and older.

• 39,911 people who were added to voter rolls while under 17 years of age.

• 17,000 mail-in ballots sent to addresses outside of Pennsylvania.

• Another analysis of Montgomery County, Pa., found 98% of the eligible voting population in the county was already registered to vote—not possible.

• A canvass of Montgomery County has identified 78,000 phantom voters, with roughly 30% of respondents unaware that there are people registered and voting from their address.

• One nursing home in Lancaster County had 690 registrations and an extremely high turnout rate of 85% in 2020, while nursing homes were closed due to Covid. One of these residents said she had not voted in the past 3 years, but had a mail-in ballot cast in her name.

• 25,000 ballots were requested from nursing homes at the exact same time.

• Numerous reports and sworn affidavits attested to poll watcher intimidation and harassment, many by brute force.

• Attorney General Bill Barr ordered U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain to stand down and not investigate election irregularities.

• Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook poured over $17 million to interfere in the Pennsylvania election, including $5.5 million on “ballot processing equipment” in Philadelphia and $552,000 for drop boxes where the voting pattern was not possible.

And so much more! This is why Democrats and the Fake News Media do not want a full forensic audit in Pennsylvania. In reality, 80,555 ballots are nothing when there is this much corruption or voter irregularities.

Donald J. Trump

Palm Beach, Fla.

Response to sinkingfeeling (Reply #14)

SergeStorms

(19,148 posts)
33. Mr. Trump.
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 10:04 AM
Oct 2021

Prove everything you just listed in a court of law. Oh, you already have, and they've been summarily dismissed?

Next case.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
40. That was my first reaction
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 11:59 AM
Oct 2021

I'm glad I am not the only one who found it outrageous. If he isn't making news of some sort, just ignore the ass.

SWBTATTReg

(22,059 posts)
46. And not a shred of evidence...just fake numbers drawn out of thin air and thrown together...
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:38 PM
Oct 2021

into this ridiculous letter by rump...funny that all of these fake facts popped up just now ...

The one committing voter fraud is already well known, and is the author of this stupid letter, djt. The powers that be need to nail his a&& for encouraging voter fraud by claiming these fake facts that somehow are voter fraud.

Botany

(70,442 posts)
47. So mail in ballots are unconstitutional?
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:42 PM
Oct 2021

Btw if a ballot is post marked before or on election day
it has to be counted as a legal ballot. And all returned mail in ballots
have bar codes that MUST MATCH the registered registered voter's ID #.

Nittersing

(6,341 posts)
17. I can't help but think that this is a coordinated effort
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:42 PM
Oct 2021

I have no idea of the potential who/what/where/when or hows involved, but these insurrectionists are playing for keeps and will do just about anything.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,864 posts)
18. I have never been so sick of anyone as I am of that
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 08:09 PM
Oct 2021

Man. He is never going to go away. He is a walking nightmare.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
38. Oh, he will go away eventually
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 11:12 AM
Oct 2021

He will become too old and sickly to continue or he'll have a stroke or he'll die, but will we be able to survive all the damage he has already done? I would prefer that he just become old and sickly, because if he were to die, his followers would Reaganize him and turn him into a martyr.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
42. Yeah, that has dawned on me as well
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 12:06 PM
Oct 2021

With his atrocious lifestyle and his anger management issues, it is a miracle he hasn't had a heart attack or stroke.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,864 posts)
43. Anyone that can see a man fall and hit his head
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 12:36 PM
Oct 2021

on the granite tile floor and only worry about ruining the tile is missing a soul. So I am guessing he might be a Japanese robot. That awful hair and that red tie are a dead giveaway.

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
48. Ah yes or maybe he died years ago
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:51 PM
Oct 2021

and his soul has gone elsewhere, leaving behind a shell impersonating an actual human being. I don't know, I like the Japanese robot theory though, except he is too inherently mean and vindictive to be a robot.

Maru Kitteh

(28,313 posts)
21. Oh that is DELICIOUS!! How's thing's goin' Billy-Bob Barr?
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 08:54 PM
Oct 2021

You shoulda listened to Rick Wilson. Everything Trump touches, DOES die. Idiot.

GoCubsGo

(32,073 posts)
22. There is no honor among thieves.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 09:04 PM
Oct 2021

It was just a matter of time before he turned on Barr. They'll all be fighting like a bag of rats at some point.

Champp

(2,114 posts)
31. Typical Republican move
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 06:53 AM
Oct 2021

Blame other for your failures. They sure are predictable. Republicans always choose the lowest, most dishonorable options.

samsingh

(17,590 posts)
44. Bill traitor barr was okay to allow the rest of the world to suffer the fool trump
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:05 PM
Oct 2021

so i hope trump keeps going after him

toughtony

(88 posts)
45. A better point
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:22 PM
Oct 2021

The Washington post asked a better question: "Why did the Wall Street Journal publish such a ridiculous letter". The WSJ published this letter with no fact checking or anything, they just published it. The letter is full of crazy lies and conspiracy theories.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
49. Yes indeed
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 02:30 PM
Oct 2021

Why would anyone not getting paid directly (and paid a LOT) by the former guy provide him a platform for the airing of his endless grievances?

Bengus81

(6,927 posts)
51. Anyone believe that next Wednesday will be a YEAR of this "stolen election" $hit??
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 02:37 PM
Oct 2021

It blows my mind.........

budkin

(6,698 posts)
55. I'm honestly still shocked that Barr didn't rig the election *for* him
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 03:17 PM
Oct 2021

I was expecting he would at least try.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
56. But, but ... Trump picked only the best people !!! Ultimately, then,
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 03:54 PM
Oct 2021

Trump rigged the election for Biden.

Stuart G

(38,410 posts)
58. I need you to know that the Deranged Shit Association...of which I am a member...
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 05:48 PM
Oct 2021

.... ...does not like to have anything associated with our fine commodity with Mr. Asshole...Trump...

...Yes Shit can be deranged as well as ranged, and fluidity and piles...but Donald Trump cannot be associated with
it...Perhaps Trump can be associated with ...Piles of Shit...That is not our association, but you need to
contact that one to find out if that association allows their name to be associated with that well known asshole



Oh well I tried...............

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