One of the many revelations to come out of the January 6th Committee hearings was Trump

Attorney General Bill Barr describe in his own words how he pushed back against Trump's claims

of election fraud. He called those claims bogus, crazy stuff, and most notoriously complete BS.

Despite the heroic headlines generated by Barr's testimony, it is a good point to remember that

Barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until December

1st, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. In fact, before his post-Trump rehabilitation

tour, this was the bill Barr we knew. What happened to the president in the 2016 election

and throughout the first two years of his administration was a poor aunt. It was a grave injustice

and it was unprecedented in American history. The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of

this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative

against the president. The proper investigative and prosecuted standards of the Department of

Justice were abused in my view in order to reach a particular result. The Durham investigation

is trying to get to the bottom of what happened. I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal.

I think there was a spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur. My own view is that the evidence

shows that we're not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There's something far more troubling

here and we're going to get to the bottom of it. I think what happened to him was one of the greatest

travesties in American history. That is the bill Barr we knew for the years of the Trump administration.

Trump's Attorney General spent the vast majority of his time as the head of the Justice Department

doing absolutely everything he could to cast doubts onto investigations into Trump. He argued

that the DOJ and the FBI institutions that he oversaw were somehow part of a deep state plot

to overthrow President Trump. To appease Trump in 2019, Barr appointed John Durham, a career

Justice Department prosecutor to investigate the origins of the intelligence community's investigation

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