In all fairness he has said "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election" and "there was no evidence yet to substantiate systemic machine fraud".
He's always been extremely careful with his words. There's a lot of hedging in those phrases. He also said that people have come to see the criminal justice system as a default fix-all.
I'm not sure I'd write him off just yet. I still think the front line is the state legislatures. Without the federal government taking over local state jurisdictions after the fact and only with clear Constitutional violations, it really is up to the states and their legislatures. The numbers are on our side. The data is on our side. Time really isn't, but 2 out of 3 is pretty good.
The DOJ can't "fix" this, not in time anyway. Criminal investigations take years and we have only weeks. That explains why Trump's lawyers are focusing on civil issues while Powell and Wood are focusing on Dominion etc. The Barr statement from today changes nothing, regardless of what his actual words were. I thought DOJ wasn't even supposed to comment on ongoing investigations?
Edit to add: does DOJ even have jurisdiction over international conspiracies? If even half the Dominion news is true then maybe DOJ hasn't seen the evidence. Maybe military intel has.
SO I guess having a truck full of ballots and driving them to swing states is a constitutional issue??? Or having Dominion change votes is a constitutional issue? This is fucked!!!! Makes no sense!
Maybe Barr is swamp after all, but the dept of just us is irrelevant. As long as this goes to SCOTUS, as it should, Trump will win. Blatant usurpation of power by the Dems and unconstitutional issues of unequal protection etc are more than enough to toss hundredsof thousands of ballots in 6 or so states. Once Trump secures his second term he'll have to focus on the rest of the shenanigans and swamp draining. Lots of anger and despair on here today, this clarification provides some hope.
Lawyers speaking legalese. Makes sense. Fraud has a specific legal definition that they probably value more than how we just like to throw it around. Doesn't mean there are other crimes going on that to a layperson would be fraud in simple terms but in the courts is defined as something else.
Too much spin. His comment undermines Trumps claims.
In all fairness he has said "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election" and "there was no evidence yet to substantiate systemic machine fraud".
He's always been extremely careful with his words. There's a lot of hedging in those phrases. He also said that people have come to see the criminal justice system as a default fix-all.
I'm not sure I'd write him off just yet. I still think the front line is the state legislatures. Without the federal government taking over local state jurisdictions after the fact and only with clear Constitutional violations, it really is up to the states and their legislatures. The numbers are on our side. The data is on our side. Time really isn't, but 2 out of 3 is pretty good.
The DOJ can't "fix" this, not in time anyway. Criminal investigations take years and we have only weeks. That explains why Trump's lawyers are focusing on civil issues while Powell and Wood are focusing on Dominion etc. The Barr statement from today changes nothing, regardless of what his actual words were. I thought DOJ wasn't even supposed to comment on ongoing investigations?
Edit to add: does DOJ even have jurisdiction over international conspiracies? If even half the Dominion news is true then maybe DOJ hasn't seen the evidence. Maybe military intel has.
SO I guess having a truck full of ballots and driving them to swing states is a constitutional issue??? Or having Dominion change votes is a constitutional issue? This is fucked!!!! Makes no sense!
Maybe Barr is swamp after all, but the dept of just us is irrelevant. As long as this goes to SCOTUS, as it should, Trump will win. Blatant usurpation of power by the Dems and unconstitutional issues of unequal protection etc are more than enough to toss hundredsof thousands of ballots in 6 or so states. Once Trump secures his second term he'll have to focus on the rest of the shenanigans and swamp draining. Lots of anger and despair on here today, this clarification provides some hope.
Lawyers speaking legalese. Makes sense. Fraud has a specific legal definition that they probably value more than how we just like to throw it around. Doesn't mean there are other crimes going on that to a layperson would be fraud in simple terms but in the courts is defined as something else.
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