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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Wow...if that’s the subjective bar this guy has for something being free speech vs. criminal then this is terrifying.
An unproven opinion is now “fraudulent conspiracy” which is criminal? How could PDJT ‘know’ that there was no fraud? It’s not possible to, especially at that time. It WAS highly irregular in many respects.
To contort legal thinking to justify criminal charges is not only extreme, it’s being intellectually dishonest with themselves first. They don’t even see the bias and how dangerous it is. To not acknowledge it is CLEARLY election interference, purely a political prosecution to eliminate your opponent for the highest position on the globe, is cognitive dissonance at best. Evil and corrupt is the reality.
Traitors must swing.
Maybe Barr can get in the DC jury pool. Smith is looking for some gullible or TDS jurors.
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