My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time," Barr told Karl in an interview, referring to why he decided to give prosecutors approval to probe the fraud allegations, and why he opened his own unofficial inquiry into the claims.
"If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bull----," Barr added.
The former attorney general also said that allegations that voting machines across the country were rigged to switch votes from Biden to Trump were not true.
"We realized from the beginning it was just bull---," Barr told Karl.
"It's a counting machine, and they save everything that was counted. So you just reconcile the two. There had been no discrepancy reported anywhere, and I'm still not aware of any discrepancy," he added.
Barr also revealed that then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) repeatedly urged the attorney general to speak out against Trump's claims of election fraud.
The Senate leader reportedly told Barr that the allegations were damaging to the country and the GOP, and hurt the party's efforts in the two Georgia Senate runoff races, which were crucial to the party holding control of the chamber.
McConnell confirmed the account to Karl, according to the book excerpt.
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