“At this point, we have not seen fraud on a scale that is likely to change the outcome of the election,” the Justice Department official said in an interview with the US news agency Associated Press.
Conservative Barr, an indefectible supporter of outgoing president Donald Trump and one of the proponents of the theory that postal votes can be manipulated by foreign powers, declared that “there have been allegations of systematic fraud, according to which machines [de voto] they would have been programmed to distort the election results “.
The US Department of Justice and Homeland Security investigated these allegations and, “so far, have found nothing to support them,” he said.
This afternoon, Barr was called to the White House, raising speculation by several commentators about a possible resignation.
Last Sunday, in an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump complained about the actions of Barr and the federal authorities, saying that they were not helping him in contesting the results and looking for evidence of fraud: “they disappeared”, declared the outgoing president.
This Tuesday (1), William Barr said that “there is an increasing tendency to use the justice system as a tool to solve all problems”.
“When someone is unhappy about something, they wait for the attorney general to investigate,” he said.
Last month, Barr authorized US prosecutors to investigate “substantive allegations” of electoral irregularities, even before the results were certified, although at the time there was no evidence of large-scale fraud.
In the memo he issued, he mandated prosecutors to bypass the policy usually followed by the Department of Justice, which prevented this type of investigation before the results were confirmed.
The team of lawyers representing the outgoing president, led by Rudy Giuliani, has claimed that there is a conspiracy by the Democratic Party to introduce millions of illegal votes into the ballot, but without providing hard evidence.
The main argument they have put forward in several court cases in states whose results contest and which could be decisive for a different outcome is that Republican observers sent to watch the count at some polling stations have failed to see the process clearly. Hence, they claim that illegalities must have occurred.
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