In a day when numerous lawsuits were filed challenging the outcome of the presidential election, and when prominent Republicans such as Mitch McConnell finally came out in support of Trump’s contention that the election was rigged, late on Monday Attorney General William Barr authorized the Justice Department to launch a probe into “substantial allegations” of voter fraud in the 2020 election, the AP first reported.
In a memo to US attorneys across the country, Barr said they could conduct investigations “if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual state.”
According to the Washington Times, this is an unusual move, since Justice Department policy prohibits any action that could influence the outcome of an election until the vote is formally certified. But the Justice Department is responsible for ensuring the integrity of federal elections.
Barr’s memo comes days after presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden was declared the winner by several media outlets in the 2020 presidential election. President Trump has not conceded and has launched several legal efforts challenging the results in states where the voting margins are razor-thin. By granting prosecutors the power to pursue such cases, U.S. attorneys around the country could give Trump more ammunition for his lawsuit.
The DOJ’s action, which many republicans will claim is long overdue, comes after Republicans in recent days turned up the heat on Barr to take some action in response to the voter fraud allegations. Earlier on Monday, Barr reportedly met with McConnell on Monday.
On Friday, nearly 40 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to the AG asking him to get to the bottom of the voter fraud claims.
“What are you doing to ensure the integrity of the voting and counting process right now?” the Republicans asked Mr. Barr in their letter. The lawmakers also called on the attorney general to commit to “using all the resources” at his disposal to ensure only legal votes are being counted “in a fully transparent manner.”
Also last week, the Nevada Republican Party sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department claiming they have received reports of at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud in the battleground state.
“We expect that number to grow substantially,” the party said in a tweet. “Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in several key battleground states that Biden won, asking local judges to either invalidate or stop counting mail-in ballots, a record number of which were cast this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier in the day several prominent Republicans backed Trump’s claims of voter fraud or his right to challenge the count, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell: “Obviously no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount and I believe the president may have legal challenges underway in at least five states,” McConnell said during a floor speech Monday.
The Trump admin has also accused local election officials of not allowing their representatives to watch vote counts and claiming illegal votes were cast in states including Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
“You don’t take these positions because you want an honest election,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during a press conference on Monday. “What we are asking for right now is patience as we explore these equal protection claims among others.”
As a reminder, states have until Dec. 8 to resolve election issues, including recounts and legal battles. The Electoral College members meet on Dec. 14 to finalize the outcome.
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If Barr’s DOJ moves at it’s normal blazing pace, we’ll hear back sometime in 2027.
That they found nothing…..
Better to hand it off to that crack team of attorneys “Dewey, Cheatum, and How.”
“if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual state.”
There’s your weasel words.
I wonder if Mr. Barr had Kobe beef or Maine lobster tail for dinner and whether he had the $200 or the $300 bottle of wine?
AG Barr had surf and turf, and he had the 1K bottle
wine, he ordered 2 but didn’t finish the second.
He had a glorious desert however.
Now you’re gonna see a real swamp creature in action…..pretend to do something, take forever pretending to investigate and after a suitable period of time announce that nothing irregular was found. Barr needs to follow Wray out the door. If Trump relies on Barr he may as well concede now and save everyone lots of grief.
Barr will do nothing/his pattern is predictable.
Barr is on it?
Awesome! I know project with 100% accuracy that Trump will win the Electoral College.
/sarc
I believe that Giuliani and Sekulow will give it their all. Rudy claimed that hundred soldiers of people have been interviewed and there were at least 50 sworn witnesses to challenge various ballot tallies. So somebody is on it and conducting the interviews, even if it’s not the FBI or DOJ. Barr won’t do shit, but maybe Rudy can move it to SCOTUS fairly quickly. Or not. I’m looking into thermal underwear for the gulag.
Don’t do the Gulag man, go full Solzhenitsyn. At least drive sharp screws into an aluminum baseball bat and then cut them off. Would make Aleksandr proud.
Instead of going to HSF we can all get together at Camp FEMA. We can talk about old times and people like BB,Smokey and AWD.
I miss those guys, lets go to HSF’s and talk about them.
You can only go for a day or two. HSF has work to do and
no place to put multiple people up. He may have a tip on
land however.
Create your own space/trailer in the woods, and wear your thermal
underwear in there. Build once you are established. Living in the
city no longer affords a cultural benefit and endless choices for
shopping.
Ya, but the bastard won’t announce any findings until the election results give Dementia Joe and Chlamidia Ho the election win. Fuck Barr, he’s just another swamp rat. I want to see some fucking Perp Walks!!!
One thing I know for sure, DOJ will drag its feet and run out the clock. They will move faster when they have charges to make against conservatives and they have a Democrat AG.
Sorry folks but boss man Netanyahu has already given Biden the nod. Based on the last 4 years, Barr’s job, after a “thorough investigation” will be to certify that the election was legit. Trump is working hard to win back Bibi’s favor though by slamming Iran with more sanctions. What else can the master negotiator do to keep his job as chief Israeli sock puppet? Nuke Syria maybe?
Maybe the downvoters need a friendly reminder that Trump disbanded the Kobach team looking into voter fraud. Tubby had 4 years to do something about the Democrats’ incessant election fuckery but chose not to for some reason.
TC,
likely Trump and his wife and son are sick of it all.
Trump does not need another divorce. He will be
better off on a nice warm golf course.
We’ll all be better off. 🙂
Sidney Powell: The computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all. That’s where the fraud took place where they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist we need an audit of all of the computer systems that played any role in this fraud whatsoever, and Joe Biden had it right. He said that he had the biggest voter fraud organization ever and he didn’t need people’s votes now. He would need people later. They had this all planned, Maria they had the algorithms, they had the paper ballots waiting to be inserted if and when needed and notably President Trump’s vote in the blue states went up enormously. That’s when they had to stop the vote count, and go in and replace votes for Biden and takeaway Trump votes.
https://menrec.com/sidney-powell-dems-had-voter-fraud-planned-audit-is-needed-nationwide/
When you add this together with the Turtle coming out for Trump, there is something here. If I had to guess Rudy and Sidney have something so solid and irrefutable that when shown, both McConnell and Barr were forced to get off their asses and be a part of the solution rather then be shown as part of the problem.
The important information here isn’t that Barr is involved, it’s that Richard Pilger instantly quit. This guy was in the position to slow play and downplay any activity IF it were possible to do so. Since he quit it’s fair to say he doesn’t want to try doing that. That smells like fear.
The other important information here is that Barr’s letter gives the okay to US attorneys all across the US to open investigations and press charges. Barr himself may be a shitbag water carrier for the deep state, but it is now out of Barr’s hands and in the hands of the US attorneys in all the different areas. To me, and I could be wrong here, it seems Barr is getting out of the way of a giant shitstorm by setting up the ability to say “sorry guys there was just too much from too many sources for it to be contained.”
First thing Turtle did Monday morning was stick his head out and sniff the air.
I agree for the most part, but, considering that Rudy had Hunter’s laptop, and nothing happened as a result, it seems like it will be an up hill battle.
On the plus side, this is where Trump works best, with on hand tied behind his back, battling the deep state, and so far, come out the other side with another one in the win column. We can hope and pray that he will win the election, despite the machinations of the demo-deep-crappers
The deep state accuses Trump of the actual deeds that Biden has committed.
Nice take Pog.
Xerox technology from the 80s.
Blockchain Encryption.
watermark dots on every official ballot.
” Mathematician Marion Tinsley lost only seven games of checkers in a career that spanned 45 years. Between 1950 and 1995, he took first place in every tournament in which he played. “Dr. Tinsley has taken the game beyond what anybody else ever conceived,” International Checkers Hall of Fame founder Charles Walker told Sports Illustrated in 1992. “No one presumed to think they could beat him.”
”
His last and best opponent was a machine, Chinook, designed by University of Alberta computer scientist Jonathan Schaeffer. When the American Checkers Federation refused to let a machine play for the championship in 1990, the sporting Tinsley resigned his crown and immediately accepted the match.
He won 4-2, with 33 draws. In one game, after the program had played its 10th move, Tinsley said, “You’re going to regret that.” Chinook resigned 26 moves later, and in the ensuing analysis Schaeffer found that Tinsley had looked>>>>>> 64 moves ahead to find the only winning strategy.”<<<<<<
Trump plays Chess.
let’s hope so.
There’s a Philly crematorium across from the weird Four Seasons Landscaping business Giuliani did his press conference from.
https://mobile.twitter.com/re5iGam/status/1325265400842645505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1325282520565493762%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4584907%2Fpg1
It is nice to have a little humor in this dark time of the Republic.
The security cameras on the Four Seasons business face the crematorium. The theory is that Team Trump has video of election people showing up to burn ballots night of election. The press conference may have been a message to little fish, cut a deal or go to jail (or worse?).
Thanks for the spice, tasty details are nice.
Billy Bagpipes needs to placate the hoi polloi by donning his bat cape
The hits just keep ‘acomin . Married women are discovering Bolsheviks have been registering voters using their maiden names . This could explain why so many unmarried women vote left. #maidengate
Velly intawesting.
They were down so fucking much they had to cheat every way possible.
Past desperation.