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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Oh, I think the 2020 was definitely fraudulent.
I think they are indicting Trump for speaking the Truth.
Alternatively, they are indicting Trump for having a difference of opinion with the Deep State.
No matter how it gets sliced, the Just Us System is a weapon.
Barr did a lot, a lot to make sure all the items you mentioned did not see the light of day. So the “fixer” did his job! Not the job we all wanted, but the job his group wanted....
This is the @sshole who thought the U.S. government had a “legitimate case” for shooting Vicki Weaver in the face.
How about the EVIDENCE you saw about Pedo Joe’s “legitimate case”, you FAT SLOB?????
Even if it was true that Trump knew he lost but claimed otherwise, how in the hell is that illegal?
Fat dik baggpipe puffer deep state tool can go w Christie and have another donut.
I guess they are saying that if he knew he lost and publicly stated he really won, then he was defrauding the govt. Or something equally as ludicrous.
Good point. I think the American public needs to be constantly reminded of this. And wasn’t she holding her baby when it happened?
Yes — exactly.
I wasn’t criticizing, just emphasizing that Barr seemed to think prior to Smiths indictment, that Trump believed he won. Now, conveniently, he is saying exactly what Smith wants and needs to convict, that Trump knew he lost and Barr is now realizing that is what Trump thought in 2020. What a liar.
With no college degree.
And Bush hates Trump.
78 indictments against Trump. This is the very definition of “throwing everything at the wall in the hope that something sticks.”
Malicious prosecution writ large.
We didn’t even throw this much at Bill CLinton.
The swamp has been very good to Barr.
Bless his heart
Bill Barr? I thought he died choking on a stuck chunk of steak.
So why then did he not charge Hillary and many Dems for denying the 2016 election? Why did he not charge Harris for saying they won’t stop and shouldn’t stop during the run up to the 2020 election?
You know it’s a slow news day when the media covers Barr.
The number of “deep state” RINOs which found their way into the previous Trump administration — to include a vice-president — is simply amazing.
I couldn’t possibly imagine why he picked Pence, but it’s my position that with the regards to the “deep state” RINOs, he had to get past McConnell and Schumer. And they were only going to let pass, ones they were comfortable with.
One or two may have squeaked through, but they got rid of them(Zinke).
As for Ross and Mnuchin, two that they probably thought would play ball with the “deep state”, they were doing too much good work to be messed with.
they are mundane, money-grubbing and happy to align “across the aisle” with their seeming political opponents for the sake of the income, mostly derived from their “public” positions....10000% right.
And to think I used to listen to the opinions of Joseph diGenova and Victoria Victoria Toensing
>>>>>>>>>>>“Don’t you dare suggest that Bill Barr is a liar,” diGenova said. “I’ve known him for 30 years. He’s one of the finest lawyers this country has ever produced.”
Gee Joe, do you still feel this way?
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