Bill Barr “Stands By” His 2020 Lies About Voter Fraud

CNN reports:

Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned  Trump’s false post-election claims that the 2020 contest had been stolen from him. “I stand by all of that,” Barr told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”

“My view is that in such a closely divided country with so much at stake, we have to keep strong protections against fraud and protect the integrity of the election, and I think when they are diluted and reduced — which they were — then people are not going to have confidence in the election, whether or not fraud occurs.”

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Former Trump Attorney General William Barr still stands by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud https://t.co/z2bCXyYIR7

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“Yes, the Russians tried to influence our election. They did it mainly through a hacking dump. They hacked into emails and then dumped them into the public. That was the influence.”

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“He’s not my idea of a president and I felt he was going to lose the election because he was not controlling himself.”

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“My view is that in such a closely divided country with so much at stake, we have to keep strong protections against fraud and protect the integrity of the election.”

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