Barr says there is no evidence of widespread election fraud

(CNN) – The United States Department of Justice found no evidence to support widespread fraud allegations that could have changed the outcome of last month’s presidential election. Attorney General William Barr said in an interview with the Associated Press published on Tuesday.

The comments from Barr, who was a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump during his tenure, represent the latest official blow by Republicans to the president’s claims of widespread fraud in his loss to Joe Biden.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr said.

Investigations found no fraud

Barr, who echoed Trump’s pre-election claims that voting by mail wasn’t safe, said both the Justice Department and Homeland Security Department investigated the fraud allegations and failed to get to nothing. .

“It has been argued that this was a systemic fraud and that the machines were essentially programmed to skew the election results,” Barr said. “And the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have been investigating this, and so far we have not seen anything to confirm it.”

Barr’s announcement comes on the same day that he publicly revealed that he has appointed Connecticut US Attorney John Durham as special adviser to investigate whether intelligence and law enforcement have violated the law by investigating the presidential campaign. Trump since 2016. This basically keeps investigations into the incoming Biden administration underway.

Trump and his lawyers are still pursuing desperate legal challenges against the 2020 election results in some key states, even though many of them have already certified their results.