Former U.S. Attorney Bill Barr says he got into a shouting match with Maria Bartiromo over election fraud claims



Former U.S. Attorney Bill Barr said on the record that Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo called him and yelled at him to do something about the allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The claim from Barr is documented in a new book by ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl. Barr said the altercation happened in mid-November after the 2020 election when then-candidate Joe Biden had been officially declared the victor over former President Donald Trump.

"She called me up and she was screaming," Barr said to Karl on the record. "I yelled back at her. She's lost it."

Karl said Bartiromo did not directly respond to his request for a comment on the story, but that a Fox News spokesperson contacted him to deny some of Barr's account.

According to the spokesperson, Barr was the person who was aggressive and cursing during the call.

Karl criticized Bartiromo, saying, "It's highly inappropriate for a journalist to call the attorney general and demand he do something related to a criminal investigation."

Barr had authorized investigators to look into "substantial allegations" of voter fraud in the 2020 election on Nov. 9, but he cautioned them to avoid "specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims."

Later in December, Barr announced that substantial enough evidence of voter fraud had been found to overturn the official results of the election.

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

Barr specifically addressed one conspiracy theory that certain voting machines had been programmed to change the results of voter ballots in order to favor Biden.

"There's been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven't seen anything to substantiate that," Barr said at the time.

Here's Karl talking about his new book:

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Republican congressman claims Trump's base is turning against him, calls fundraising from election a scam



A Republican member of Congress excoriated President Donald Trump's fundraising in hopes of overturning the results of the election, and claimed that he's heard from many in the Republican base that they're turning against the president.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois spoke to Dana Bash on CNN on Tuesday and said that some Republican politicians are privately distancing themselves from the president.

"I think they're starting to, I'll tell you the base is starting to turn," Kinzinger claimed.

"I get texts every day, granted people that are mad at me that are my friends probably aren't going to text me," he explained, "but, a lot of people that I thought would be upset with me calling this out, that are texting saying, 'you know what you're right, it's time, and nobody else is saying it,' you know if the president says the election is stolen and nobody rebuts him, you're generally gonna believe him."

"I do think it's starting to turn," Kinzinger concluded.

Kinzinger went on to say that the president would be a "player" in the Republican party after he leaves office, but that he wouldn't be as influential for as long as many believe.

He also said in the interview that the president's efforts to overturn the results of the election were undermining Democracy, and called his fundraising efforts to that end a scam.

"People that work hard for their money, hardworking taxpayers are giving their money to this because they're convinced because the president's telling them this, that they can win, and they can't," said Kinzinger.

"And the scam in congress with January 6th, all these members of Congress that are posting crazy things so they can get a ton of followers and retweets and raise money," he added.

"I think we have to call it out finally because if we don't people are just gonna believe it," Kinzinger concluded.

Allies and supporters of the president who believe a massive voter fraud scheme stole the 2020 election from him plan a rally on January 6, the day of the Electoral College Certification Process in Congress.

Kinzinger is a U.S. Air Force veteran and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard.

Here's the video of Kinzinger's comments:

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​Electoral College officially confirms Joe Biden's victory despite GOP picking 'alternate' electors to challenge the results



The Electoral College convened to officially confirm the victory of former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, but the Republican Party sent its own electors in several states to challenge the results.

With 270 votes needed to win the presidential contest, Biden received 306 electoral votes while Trump received 232 electoral votes.

The official count of the electoral ballots will be conducted on Jan. 6 in a joint session in Congress.

While the official count of the Electoral College will likely end any legal challenge by the Trump campaign, Republicans are attempting to keep their chances alive by picking "alternate" electors from contested state and sending their ballots to Congress.

Joe Biden speaks

In a speech Monday evening, Biden made his case against those who questioned the outcome of the election or claimed that it was illegitimate because of voter fraud.

"This legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials in one group of states to get the Supreme Court to wipe out the vote of more than 20 million Americans in other states, and to hand the presidency to a candidate that lost the Electoral College, lost the popular vote, and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse," said Biden of the lawsuit from Texas.

"It's a position so extreme, we've never seen it before," he continued. "A position that refused to respect the will of the people, refused to respect the rule of law, and refuse to honor our Constitution."

Biden and Kamala Harris will be inaugurated as president and vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2021.

Here's more about the GOP challenge to the election:

Electoral College Votes To Make Biden Win Official | NBC Nightly Newswww.youtube.com

Steven Crowder checked the status of his ballot in Texas — and found someone could have voted under his name in Michigan



Conservative comedian and BlazeTV host Steven Crowder said that he saw bizarre anomalies when he tried to track his ballot and the ballots of his family from November's election.

The results from the 2020 election have been questioned by President Donald Trump and his allies after highlighting some of the problems associated with the rush to vote by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Crowder documented the anomalies of the votes from his wife, his grandmother, and his own vote on his show on Monday.

He said that both his wife and his grandmother voted with absentee ballots, but that when he went to track their ballots, he saw that his grandmother's ballot was not in the system, and neither was the ballot of his wife.

Crowder went through the process to show how someone might track the ballot in Michigan, and entered the information for his wife to show that there was no status on whether they had received the ballot.

Crowder then said that he discovered that he was registered in Michigan even though he had personally registered in Texas and voted there.

"Let's bring this up from [news outlet] Forbes. Michigan's law is that everybody that's registered to vote, gets a ballot, they don't have to be requested," he explained.

"This was signed into law, everyone registered to vote gets a ballot, so someone living at that address, where I no longer live, this is an old residence, received my ballot, as to whether they voted, I do not know!" Crowder continued.

"All I know is my wife voted in Michigan. My wife voted absentee, my grandmother voted absentee, who lives in Michigan, 100% of the days of the year, and the information we have on their absentee vote is the exact same information we have on my voter registration in Michigan, which is false," he added.

"So, best case scenario, this is a broken system where you cannot check the status on your absentee ballot," Crowder said.

"Worst case scenario, it's the perfect system to try and remove any transparency for obvious fraud," he concluded.

Crowder encouraged voters, especially in Michigan, to check the status of their ballots and to call their county clerk's office if they saw anything that might cause suspicion.

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AG William Barr authorizes prosecutors to investigate 'substantial allegations' of election fraud



Attorney General William Barr authorized prosecutors on Monday to look into allegations of election fraud in a letter after the media called the election despite claims of voting irregularities in several contests.

The Associated Press reported that the memo from Barr instructed prosecutors that investigations "may be conducted 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."

However, he also cautioned against pursuing less credible claims.

"While serious allegations should be handled with great care, specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries," Barr wrote.

Media outlets called the election on Saturday for former Vice President Joe Biden based on a projection from reported vote counts, but President Donald Trump has claimed numerous times that he won by a large margin and that Democrats are attempting to steal the election.

Some supporters of the president praised the development.

"GREAT news from the DOJ & AG William Barr," tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.). "Every legal vote should be counted. Every fraudulent vote should be removed."

"Barr lives!" said BlazeTV host Steve Deace.

Others, like CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, saw the move as a politically motivated weaponization of the Department of Justice.

"Barr already has turned DOJ into a political weapon for Trump," tweeted Honig.

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"Now he has crossed the last line of independence, and violated DOJ's own policy, by using the prosecutorial power to try to gin up support for Trump's desperate, last-ditch fraud narrative," he claimed. "He's way off the rails now."

While others pointed to a sentence in the statement that emphasized the DOJ had not yet confirmed any fraud that had changed the election.

"Nothing here should be taken as any indication that the Department has concluded that voting irregularities have impacted the outcome of any election," wrote Barr.

The states have until Dec. 9 to finalize their results and resolve any disputes. On Dec. 14, the Electoral College will finalize the outcome of the election.

Here's a news report about the development:

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