Chapter 4.2 - November 23, 2020: Barr Challenges President Trump's Election Lies (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
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On November 23rd, the Attorney General was called to the White House to meet with President Trump. President Trump didn't feel the Department of Justice was doing enough to investigate his election fraud claims. Barr explained to the President why he was wrong. DOJ, was willing to investigate any specific and credible allegations of fraud. The fact of the matter was that the claims being made had no merit upon further investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 0:16.2 | States Capitol. |
| 0:18.4 | Chapter 4 Just Call it Corrupt and Leave the rest to me. |
| 0:22.8 | 4.2. |
| 0:27.8 | November 23, 2020. |
| 0:31.2 | Bar challenges President Trump's election lies. |
| 0:36.2 | As Bar predicted, the President did call on him for information about alleged election fraud. Trump challenged him with a blizzard of conspiracy theories in three face-to-face meetings after the election. |
| 0:48.0 | The first such meeting occurred on November 23, 2020. |
| 0:54.1 | On November 23rd, the attorney general spoke with White House Council Pat Cipolloni, who said |
| 0:59.8 | that it was important for him to come to the White House and speak to President Trump. |
| 1:05.0 | Barr had not seen the President since before the election in late October, and the White |
| 1:10.0 | House Council believed that it was important that the Attorney General |
| 1:13.4 | explain what the Department of Justice was doing related to claims of election |
| 1:18.0 | fraud. The President said there had been major fraud and that as soon as the facts were out, the results of the election would be reversed, Barr recalled. |
| 1:29.0 | Trump continued for quite a while, and Barr was expecting what came next. |
| 1:34.0 | President Trump alleged that the Department of Justice |
| 1:37.5 | doesn't think it has a role looking into these fraud claims. |
| 1:41.0 | Barr anticipated this line of attack because the President's Council, Rudolf |
| 1:45.8 | Giuliani, was making all sorts of wild unsubstantiated claims, and Giuliani wanted to blame |
| 1:52.4 | DOJ for the fact that no one had come up with any real evidence of fraud. |
| 1:57.0 | Of course, by the time of this meeting, U.S. Attorney's offices had been explicitly authorized to investigate substantial claims for two weeks |
| 2:07.0 | and had yet to find any evidence of significant voter fraud. |
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