A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Tuesday night (Dec. 1) that “some media outlets have erroneously reported that the Department of Justice has concluded its investigation into election fraud and its declaration that there was no fraud in the election.”
“That is not what the Associated Press is reporting, nor is it what the Attorney General is saying. The DOJ will continue to collect and aggressively pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as quickly as possible,” The statement added.
The Associated Press sent out a breaking news release Tuesday afternoon saying that Attorney General William Barr, interviewed by them, said that so far, no massive fraud has been observed that could have affected the outcome of the election.
The Justice Department was asked to confirm the comments in the AP story and to explain why Barr did not make the comments at the press conference. The Justice Department made its official response near 8 p.m. Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, the same day, Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis attended a public hearing on election fraud in Michigan.
They later issued a joint statement in response to Barr’s claims. With all due respect, it does not appear that the Department of Justice has conducted any investigation,” the statement said.
“We have collected a great deal of evidence showing that illegal voting occurred in at least six states, but they have not yet reviewed that evidence. We have numerous witnesses who have testified under oath that they have seen criminal conduct related to election fraud. None of them, to our knowledge, have been interviewed by the DOJ. Nor has the DOJ audited any voting machines or used its subpoena power to determine the truth.”
The statement said, “Nonetheless, we will continue to pursue the truth through the judicial system and state legislatures, and remain committed to our constitutional mandate to ensure that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is not counted. Again, with the utmost respect for the Attorney General, his opinion should be the result of no knowledge or investigation of significant irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud.”
A public memo sent by Barr to federal prosecutors a week after Election Day, Nov. 3, said prosecutors everywhere were directed to pursue substantive allegations of voting and counting irregularities prior to the jurisdiction’s election certification.
The memo reads, “Such an investigation and review may be conducted if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could have affected the outcome of a state’s federal election.”
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