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DOJ's Election Crimes Director Resigns After Barr Authorizes Election Fraud Investigation
Newsweek ^ | November 9, 2020 | Daniel Villarreal

Posted on 11/09/2020 7:24:09 PM PST by truthkeeper

Richard Pilger, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Director of the Election Crimes Branch, has resigned following Attorney General William Barr's authorization earlier today for federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Pilger reportedly tendered his resignation within hours of Barr's green-lighting of investigations into allegations of fraud that have yet to be substantiated, The New York Times reported.

The re-election campaign of Republican President Donald Trump and various Republican political leaders on the federal and state level have alleged that fraudulent ballots swung the contentious presidential race into the favor of Trump's opponent, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2020; 202011; 2020election; auten; barr; braking; dirtybastard; ecb; electionfraud; elections; fraud; grassley; irsscandal; lerner; loislerner; pilger; resignation; resignations; richardpilger; teaparty; votefraud; warontheteaparty; weaponizedirs; yourefired
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This guy has an interesting past...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/issa-subpoenas-doj-after-election-crimes-director-refuses-answer

1 posted on 11/09/2020 7:24:09 PM PST by truthkeeper
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Swamp creature


2 posted on 11/09/2020 7:26:03 PM PST by Lee25
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Bizarre


3 posted on 11/09/2020 7:26:45 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Bonus! I remember that guy now. Glad he is gone.


4 posted on 11/09/2020 7:26:51 PM PST by madison10
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It’s disgraceful that this biased lawyer, who colluded with Obama IRS chief Lois Lerner to persecute Tea Party groups and who refused to testify under oath in Congress in 2014, was still in charge of the elections unit in the DOJ. Until today, when work appeared on the horizon. https://t.co/emU8hqBQM7— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 10, 2020


5 posted on 11/09/2020 7:27:02 PM PST by freepersup (Sock it to me! BQQM!)
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Sounds like he is as dirty as they come.


6 posted on 11/09/2020 7:27:24 PM PST by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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Plausible allegations concerning real laws being breached should be investigated—especially with sworn statements on the line.

Making up allegations that have no legal basis (Trump impeachment) is wrong.


7 posted on 11/09/2020 7:27:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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What is the difference between alleged voter fraud and instantiated voter fraud


8 posted on 11/09/2020 7:28:11 PM PST by Lee25
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From PJ Media:

“...The swamp is alive and well at the Department of Justice also. There, other ideological radicals and Obama holdovers remain in positions of power, pretending that President Trump’s election never occurred.

Meet Richard Pilger. Pilger is the answer to the Jeopardy question: “Who was asleep on watch at the Justice Department for eight years of Obama and never brought a single case of voter fraud?”

Pilger is still the head of the Election Crimes Branch at the Criminal Division. Pilger is the same DOJ lawyer who was consulting with Lois Lerner as she was targeting Tea Party groups, and refused to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee.

Whenever you read a story about voter fraud during the Obama administration that wasn’t prosecuted by the Justice Department, it’s Pilger who was in charge.

Oh boy, were there chances. Chances upon chances. Even Democrat nominees for Congress like Wendy Rosen were committing federal voter fraud, but Pilger did nothing. After all, Rosen voted twice in 2012 to re-elect President Obama, so nothing to see here....”


9 posted on 11/09/2020 7:28:49 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Pilger and Lois Lerner have history. Good riddance.


10 posted on 11/09/2020 7:29:27 PM PST by NautiNurse (Are the Dems stealing votes in Philadelphia? Rod Blagojevich says, "Is the Pope Catholic?")
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Rats starting to abandon ship? Is this a sign that the shyt’s about to get real?


11 posted on 11/09/2020 7:29:50 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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“I...I gotta work? Oooh. I didn’t sign up for that.”


12 posted on 11/09/2020 7:30:15 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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LOL! Lois Lerner’s pal!


13 posted on 11/09/2020 7:30:38 PM PST by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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What did Pilger know and when did he know it...


14 posted on 11/09/2020 7:30:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Richard Pilger, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Director of the Election Crimes Branch

Just an honest mistake my Pilger. He thought he was supposed to direct election crimes, not stop them.

15 posted on 11/09/2020 7:32:08 PM PST by FreeReign
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He’s an Obama guy.

From 2014 per your link.

“CNSNews.com) – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) subpoenaed the Department of Justice today for documents after the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch director, Richard Pilger, refused to answer critical questions 34 times, as advised by a DOJ lawyer, about the IRS-Tea Party scandal.


16 posted on 11/09/2020 7:32:20 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Lois Lerner’s partner in crime back during the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


17 posted on 11/09/2020 7:32:21 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Gee, refuses to answer questions regarding Tea Party IRS scandal back in 2014. Sounds like he must be an Obama flunky. Good riddance. Who knows, this may be a blessing in disguise when the dust settles and these a-holes leave the government, and President Trump wins reelection.


18 posted on 11/09/2020 7:32:25 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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Now it makes sense. Pilger’s resignation was at the request of Barr. Barr often allows people to retire rather than being fired.


19 posted on 11/09/2020 7:32:44 PM PST by Savage Rider
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Not a good look.

WTF is wrong with looking at it and investigating any crimes that may have occurred?

How do you make a case that it’s a bad idea?


20 posted on 11/09/2020 7:33:49 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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