Barr takes a dig at the Dinesh D’Souza movie about voter fraud that Trump has been touting, with a chuckle. Barr is so far the most measured, definitive witness the committee has displayed this morning, speaking at length.
As for Barr, he underscored that he viewed investigating fraud as not a problem for the justice department, telling Trump his agency “doesn’t take sides in elections and the department is not an extension of of your legal team.”
“And our role is to investigate fraud and look at something if it’s if it’s specific, credible and could have affected the outcome of the election and... we’re doing that and it’s just not,” Barr recalls saying.
In the words of Zoe Lofgren, the California Democrat currently leading the hearing, “Even after his attorney general told him his claims of election fraud were false. President Trump continued to promote these claims.”
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