03 December,2020 01:15 PM IST | Washington | Agencies
US Attorney General William Barr and Donald Trump. File pic/AFP
Disputing President Donald Trump's persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared the US Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Barr's comments, in an interview on Tuesday with the The Associated Press, contradict the concerted effort by Trump, his boss, to subvert the results of last month's voting and block President-elect Joe Biden from taking his place in the White House.
Barr told the AP that US attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they've received, but "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election." The comments, which drew immediate criticism from Trump attorneys, were especially notable coming from Barr, who has been one of the president's most ardent allies.
Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voting could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the pandemic as Americans feared going to polls and instead chose to vote by mail. Barr went to the White House Tuesday for a previously scheduled meeting that lasted about three hours.
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Trump didn't directly comment on the attorney general's remarks on the election. But his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his political campaign said, 'with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn't been any semblance' of an investigation into the president's complaints.
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