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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George W. Bush had actual knowledge that Saddam Hussein had WMD.
The FBI had actual knowledge that Hunter Biden's laptop did not belong to Hunter Biden.
51 Intelligence experts had actual knowledge that the Steele dossier was totally legitimate.
How can anyone trust anything? And is it now illegal to be wrong in your opinions?
When it goes against the #JihadJunta, yes.
I had not thought him corrupt until now.
How many times did he visit Epstein Island and who is blackmailing him?
“...[Barr] has grown to believe that Trump has always known that he legitimately lost his White House reelection bid.”
Anyone who believes that the Sniffer got 81 million votes is either corrupt or and idiot. In Barr’s case, he certainly is not an idiot. He is a snake in the grass.
Barr is out to destroy Trump.
In the sick media, they are putting out trash after trash. Doing the devils work
Lie after lie..
Lord. Please protect Trump.
Bull crap.
Cannot believe I thought this guy was legit.
Barr is deep State from his father!
I never even heard of this fat schmuck until he suddenly appeared in the Trump admin. He needs to go away.
Barr has been a agency protecting FIXER for most of his life.
He is a totally corrupt agent of the CABAL.
Barr lies.
CNN GARBAGE...best ignored...might as well be straight from CIA.
a more serious matter worth noting:
17 July: CBS: On Your Side: Bank customers report unexpected account closures
BY KRISTINE LAZAR
A growing number of bank customers are having their accounts shut down without much warning or explanation, leaving them without access to their money...
When we met Elad Nehorai and his family, they had been at a Bank of America branch in West Los Angeles for hours trying to get access to their life savings. That morning, when Nehorai tried to log into his online bank account, he got an alert.
“Bank of America told me it was shut down. They refused to give me an explanation. They told me I would get my money after it was resolved,” said Nehorai...
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/on-your-side-bank-customers-report-unexpected-account-closures/
I don’t think it’s blackmail, he seems to be useful working for corporations when he is out of government. Verizon, Time Warner, Caterpillar, the list goes on.... He made tens of millions as a Board Member. I just think he’s protect his ‘Brand’ and feeding his ego as a ‘source’ for media.
Blow it out your bagpipes
I guess once you’ve lost your honor there is no low you cannot go. RIP Bill Barr you are dead to me.
And ANTIFA, murdering and destroying our cities, were only Boy Scout types, looking for little old ladies to escort across streets. Barr is a seditious POS that belongs on the business end of a firing squad.
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