Peter Navarro says Bill Barr is ‘Deep State,’ details how he was working against Trump admin all along

Bill Barr was seen by many as a significant upgrade over Jeff Sessions as the leader of the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Justice, but Peter Navarro has a different opinion.

The former White House trade advisor claims that Barr was President Joe Biden’s “first attorney general” based on the way the DOJ under Barr (presumably before he left) allegedly pre-cleared or fast-tracked Biden’s blitz of executive orders that went into effect as soon as he was inaugurated. Navarro described the situation as Deep State coup and insisted that Barr should have been fired much sooner than his December 2020 departure.

Navarro was responding to a question from Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo who wondered how 17 of Biden’s left-wing wish list of executive orders were promptly ready to go on day one. In contrast to the way Biden’s edicts were vetted quickly through the federal bureaucracy, Navarro asserted that DOJ lawyers dragged their feet on then-President Donald Trump’s directives.

“We got slow-walked at the Department of Justice, and this is a problem I told Barr about numerous times. And he should have been fired months before he was. By the last year of this administration, he was really working against this administration in a lot of ways,” Navarro said Sunday.

“And these executive orders, the bottleneck was at the Department of Justice on so many things that we did. And you can see what President Biden is doing now. He’s just unwinding things that are gonna come back to haunt the American worker big time,” Navarro declared on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

My Experience in Maricopa County at the 2020 Election

I served as an official legal observer of the 2020 general election. I observed at the following location: 510 S. Third Ave Phoenix AZ 85003 on Sunday(s) 10-25-2020, 11-01-2020 and Thursday 11-05-2020. While serving as an observer, I personally witnessed the following.

On Sunday, October 25, 2020, I arrived to serve from 7:15 am to 4:30 pm and was provided a complete tour of the facility from opening of mail-in ballots, elevated signature verification and the adjudication process. I was not shown the normal signature verification process, if there was one.

There was no ballot counting/tabulation on Sunday, October 25, 2020. I was told that approximately 12% of all mail-in/ early ballots were in need of adjudication, for reasons including but limited to mis-marking bubbles and write-in candidates, in order to establish voter intent.

After watching the adjudication process, I was satisfied the "one Republican and one Democrat" process was being accomplished in a very diligent, straightforward and honest manner.

I was concerned and did voice my complaint that the two Maricopa County referees, who are called upon to settle any unresolved disputes between the adjudicators, were registered "Independent Party" members. I was told that this setup was laid out per Arizona Statute.

I asked one referee about her bias and how she voted for President and a very wide grin appeared on the upper cheeks and eyes on that referee's masked face. After 10 seconds or so, she said: "I cannot say."

(I regret not having this county employee's name, but can easily identify her from a photo or in person.)

During my October 25 tour of duty I was able to ask questions and received feedback from every county employee I engaged at the Tabulation Center.

I engaged Bruce, who was the Dominion "Master of Ceremonies" employee in sole charge of operating the Dominion server and software as a Maricopa County contractor.

To my knowledge, Bruce was the sole Dominion representative working in the Maricopa County Recorder Ballot Tabulation Center while I was observing during 10-25-20 (11-01-20 & 11-05-20).

To this moment I deeply regret not having obtained his last name and have been working to obtain it. Bruce is approximately 5'10 180 lbs with "ginger" red/blond hair. I can easily identify him from a photo or in person.

I spoke, one on one, with Bruce twice on Sunday, October 25, 2020 about the safety and security of the digital data, that he alone was collecting and storing into the Dominion system.

When I told him that I grew up watching the 1966 original Mission Impossible and that I had just watched a Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible" movie, where "Tom" was able to access the ultra-secure space portrayed in the movie via HVAC ductwork, Bruce (with a very amused look on his face the entire time), kept physically pointing to the the heavy-duty glass/plexiglass server space and carefully pointed out how every wire, cable and power supply cord were hung in a "basket" path suspended from the ceiling, to and from the server and to all counting/tabulation equipment. He assured me that nothing in that room was connected to the internet.

When I continued to pitch my position that "a savvy 14 year old could somehow hack into the data and change the outcome of the results," Bruce replied, "There must be trust in the process." He ended our final exchange on 10-25-20 with a smile, saying that he was a registered Republican. [Don’t know if this was a lie.]

As no ballot counting/tabulation of ballots was to occur that day, at or about 2:30 pm Sunday, October 25, I ended my assigned shift and I departed the Maricopa County Recorder Ballot Tabulation Center.

On 11-01-2020, I served from 7:15 am to 4:30 pm at the Maricopa County Recorder Ballot Tabulation Center.

While waiting for ballot tabulation activity to commence, Greg, a fellow Republican observer assigned that day, arrived. I was relieved to learn that Greg had far more than a general working knowledge of computer programming and had experience in that field for decades.

Given my inability to satisfy myself about the security of the data during my 10-25-20 experience, I was hopeful that Greg would be able to ask questions that would illuminate in a manner in which I could trust the Dominion data collection and storage system and process.

When there was a problem with the operation of one of the older, smaller tabulation devices, Bruce was called into action. Greg and I sprung to our feet to observe the problem and to watch how it would be resolved.

Given my limited knowledge of software and programming, I was truly an observer, seeking to understand what was being done with or to the data.

I observed Bruce and his laptop interfacing the broken/stalled tabulation device and handling folders full of data.

Greg was following closely and understood precisely what it was that Bruce was doing with the data on his laptop, given their exchanges.

I came to understand "when a file becomes too full of data, a subset folder had to be created." I am unsure if that subset folder was a copy of the original file, a brand new separate file, thereby deleting the original file, or how that data was handled exactly. I did not understand fully how the broken/stalled tabulation device was returned to service. Greg will know exactly what took place.

When Greg and I asked how the data was stored as a backup, in case the building burned down, for example, Maricopa County Vendor Dominion employee Bruce admitted that he took a complete copy of the voter files, being stored in the Dominion system out of the building with him every night as a form of a "backup" copy.

When the Dominion "Master of Ceremonies" takes the entire voter files into his sole possession while unobserved off county property with him every night, it does not matter that the system the County bought into is not attached to the internet.

On Thursday 11-05-2020 I was assigned to stand a post at 2:30 pm at the Maricopa County Recorder Ballot Tabulation Center. On that day and time the only activity in the tabulation room was the processing of Overseas ballots.

These Overseas ballots were being electronically generated by a two-person team, consisting of differing political party members. The aforementioned "Independent" county referee was teamed up with a Republican.

There were about 20 teams of two who were inputting votes made by Overseas voters from stacks of printed .pdf sheets of paper having hand written serial numbers, in red ink.

I voiced my concern to the lead county worker, about the fact that the "Independent" county worker may not be as dutiful as a Republican or Democrat would be to the process of creating electronic ballots that were to be counted by Dominion machines and software. I do not have the name of the lead county worker, but can identify her from a picture or in person.

About 20 minutes later I asked the lead county worker, "Where were the hand written serial numbered printed .pdf documents generated?"

At that moment my phone rang and the lead county worker told me to "take that call outside."

I instantly muted the ringer, while continuing to press her for answers to questions like:

"Where is the secured portal?" "Who is responsible for handwriting serial numbers on each .pdf?" And, most importantly, "Who was observing that process?"

I was told, "The secure portal was offsite and that there was no oversight."

At that point the lead county worker turned and walked away with her assistants, who seem to be serving as witnesses.

About ten minutes later, while observing another set of folks who were "adjudicating" damaged .pdf ballots, unsupervised, I took my phone out and saw two text messages from AZ State Director of Election Day Operations Gina Swoboda.

"Hi mark. You have been removed by maricopa elections. Please leave. Thank you." And: "I am sending another observer."

It was Ms. Swoboda's call I muted as she left me a voicemail stating what she texted when she didn't reach me by voice.

I departed the Maricopa County Recorder Ballot Tabulation Center at approximately 4:00 pm on Thursday 11-05-2020.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-858/164743/20201224112136771_Arizona%20Appendix.pdf