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AG Bill Barr says there ISN'T enough evidence of voting fraud to change election result after probe into Dominion systems - but furious Rudy Giuliani claims 'there hasn't been any semblance of an investigation'

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

His comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they´ve received, but the've uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election.

'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,' Barr told the AP.

'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,' U.S. Attorney General William Barr said

'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,' U.S. Attorney General William Barr said

The comments are especially direct coming from Barr, who has been one of the president's most ardent allies. Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voter fraud could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans feared going to polls and instead chose to vote by mail.

They came even as Trump continued Tuesday to call the election 'rigged' and blasted out clips to a series of unverified claims of voter fraud.

It also came on a day when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) referenced the 'new administration,' as President-elect Joe Biden introduced his economic team. 

Last month, Barr issued a directive to U.S. attorneys across the country allowing them to pursue any 'substantial allegations' of voting irregularities, if they existed, before the 2020 presidential election was certified, despite no evidence at that time of widespread fraud. That memorandum gave prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election was certified. Soon after it was issued, the department´s top elections crime official announced he would step aside from that position because of the memo.

The Trump campaign team led by Rudy Giuliani has been alleging a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to dump millions of illegal votes into the system with no evidence. They have filed multiple lawsuits in battleground states alleging that partisan poll watchers didn´t have a clear enough view at polling sites in some locations and therefore something illegal must have happened. 

Giuliani and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis blasted Barr's comments in a statement.  

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani continues the effort seeking to overturn the vote in states Trump lost

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani continues the effort seeking to overturn the vote in states Trump lost

Barr said DHS has looked into claims of voting machines flipping votes to Joe Biden. Lawyer Sidney Powell raised the allegation, which she also tied to Venezuela, Cuba, and China, at a press conference with other Trump lawyers

Barr said DHS has looked into claims of voting machines flipping votes to Joe Biden. Lawyer Sidney Powell raised the allegation, which she also tied to Venezuela, Cuba, and China, at a press conference with other Trump lawyers

Trump has tweeted about Dominion Voting Systems 24 times and claims the election was 'rigged'

Trump has tweeted about Dominion Voting Systems 24 times and claims the election was 'rigged'

Trump has called the election rigged pushed a conspiracy theory about voting machines

Trump has called the election rigged pushed a conspiracy theory about voting machines

Trump wrote last month he will 'never concede'

Trump wrote last month he will 'never concede'

'With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation,' they wrote. 'We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter fraud. As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. The Justice Department also hasn’t audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth,' they continued.

'Nonetheless, we will continue our pursuit of the truth through the judicial system and state legislatures, and continue toward the Constitution’s mandate and ensuring that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is not. Again, with the greatest respect to the Attorney General, his opinion appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud,' they concluded.    

The claims have been repeatedly dismissed including by Republican judges who have ruled the suits lacked evidence. Local Republicans in some battleground states have followed Trump in making similar unsupported claims.

Trump has railed against the election in tweets and in interviews though his own administration has said the 2020 election was the most secure ever. Trump recently allowed his administration to begin the transition over to Biden, but has still refused to admit he lost.

The issues Trump´s campaign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election: Problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on mail-in ballots, as well as the potential for a small number of ballots miscast or lost.

But they've also requested federal probes into the claims. Attorney Sidney Powell has spun fictional tales of election systems flipping votes, German servers storing U.S. voting information and election software created in Venezuela 'at the direction of Hugo Chavez,' - the late Venezuelan president who died in 2013. Powell has since been removed from the legal team after an interview she gave where she threatened to 'blow up' Georgia with a 'biblical' court filing.

Barr didn't name Powell specifically but said: '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.

He said people were confusing the use of the federal criminal justice system with allegations that should be made in civil lawsuits. He said such a remedy for those complaints would be a top-down audit conducted by state or local officials, not the U.S. Justice Department.

'There´s a growing tendency to use the criminal justice system as sort of a default fix-all, and people don´t like something they want the Department of Justice to come in and `investigate,´' Barr said.

He said first of all there must be a basis to believe there is a crime to investigate.

'Most claims of fraud are very particularized to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct. They are not systemic allegations and. And those have been run down; they are being run down,' Barr said. 'Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up on.'

Giuliani and Trump last week discussed a potential presidential pardon for Giuliani, the New York Times reported – a possible indication that Giuliani is banking on the end of Trump's term. Giuliani denied the report. 

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