“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. »
In this final act of the Trump presidency, even the most loyal deputies are guilty of “disloyalty” because they won’t take a last fateful step into pure fantasy. Rudy will do it. Sidney Powell will do it. True-blue populists will do it. But the Attorney General of the United States, who served Trump so faithfully so many times? There are some lines he won’t cross. He wouldn’t order the arrest of Hunter Biden or whatever the hell Trump wanted him and Chris Wray to do as an “October surprise.” He wouldn’t force John Durham to issue a report on his Russiagate investigation prematurely so that Trump might benefit on Election Day. And he won’t lend credence to wild claims of voter fraud just because it would make the president feel better. In that sense, this is the perfect sequel to the last post about Doug Ducey. So many Republican officials have shown an alarming, corrosive degree of loyalty to Trump over the past four years but that loyalty still isn’t as absolute as the president demands. Ducey and Brian Kemp won’t obstruct the election certification process for him. Barr won’t lie about voter fraud for him. The difference between Barr and the two governors is that they’re in no danger of being fired before the day is out and Barr now is. At the very least, he’ll end up as a whipping boy for Trump on Twitter. Imagine that. Bill Barr, the upgrade at AG from Jeff Sessions, is going to end up getting the Sessions treatment himself. And for having committed the same sin, really, insisting on behaving ethically when doing so would undermine the president’s interests. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.
