Posted on 08/03/2023 3:05:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former Attorney General William Barr believes the Justice Department has a “legitimate case” in the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump, who is accused of spreading lies about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
In a Wednesday night interview on CNN, Barr, who served a stint as the nation’s chief law enforcement under Trump, also said he has grown to believe that Trump has always known that he legitimately lost his White House reelection bid.
“As a legal matter I don’t see a problem with the indictment,” Barr told “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins. “I think that it’s not an abuse — the Department of Justice is not acting to weaponize the department by proceeding against the president for a conspiracy to subvert the electoral process.”
Trump’s attorneys have claimed that the president was exercising his first amendment rights — a defense that Barr does not think will hold in court.
“They’re not attacking his first amendment rights, he can say whatever he wants he can even lie and tell people the election was stolen when he knew better, but that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. All conspiracies involve speech and all fraud involves speech,” he said. “Free speech does not give you the right for fraudulent conspiracy.”
Barr said he wasn’t sure initially, but has since “come to believe that [Trump] knew well that he had lost the [2020] election.
“And, now, what I think is important is, the government has assumed the burden of proving that. The government, in their indictment, takes the position that he had actual knowledge that he had lost the election and the election wasn’t stolen through fraud,” Barr told Collins.
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Your assessment is accurate. Most, not all, of these people have no real discernable skills and don’t bring much to the world. They go to meetings and shuffle papers. They are mediocre. They got into politics and government and realized they hit the Mother Lode and will do whatever it takes to keep it. They hate anyone who sees thru their veneer of importance. Deep inside, they know they wouldn’t last 5 minutes out in a competitive private sector and the real world. That’s what scares them to their core— the knowledge that they are not capable.
You are kidding us, right?
They are so entrenched in their dirty deep state, ..hooked ...bred into the evil they created ..they have to be stopped...
It shows lack of intelligence and a lack of control over one's appetites.
Screw Bill the Glutton!
LOL!! So Freepers are just NOW figuring out Barr was/is a DC SWAMP CREATURE???
Barr served a term as AG under Bush, so you know full well he is a swamp rat.
Go blow your bagpipes fat boy
How do you prove what someone believes?
What is this loathsome troll going to do when proof starts coming in, and it will….truth always wins in the end.
History is going to look back at these people with disgust and shame
He’s a Trump-hating jughead. Should be in jail for treason against the President of the United States, IMHO!
Fat Barr is a picture perfect reason for eliminating the senior executive service via a Convention of States.
If Barr has any sort of connection with Epstein, I hate him even more. He can’t be trusted.
By whatever means possible.
This is the same idiot who said the Russian Collusion hoax was legitimate too.
“Barr’s father hired Epstein to work at his private school in Manhattan”
Worth repeating.
This bum also promised he that he would put those involved in Clintoon’s fraudulant Russki Trump smear scheme in jail. What ever happened with that, Fatboy? Go blow it out your bagpipe you big phony.
“Read his quote: Barr has “come to believe” that Trump knew he lost.”
Well, yes, that is what I quoted.
Then I made a general observation, because Barr is saying that he believes Biden got 81 million votes.
The bright spot...you can recognize who is telling the lies now.
Barr and Bush.
Christie and Wray.
Bloated, blood filled leeches
latching on to power for their own power.
Yeah, it's Trump's fault. Go with that.
/sarcasm
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