The Associated Press reported that many people are focused on the criminal justice system when it comes to finding remedies to the election issues but that, often, the remedies are found in civil court.
“Most claims of fraud are very particularized to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct. … And those have been run down; they are being run down,” the attorney general said. “Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up on.”
When given the initial quote by the media the attorneys for President Donald Trump’s campaign hit back.
“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,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney Jenna Ellis said.
“With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation,” they said.
After the election in November, Barr authorized federal prosecutors to follow any “substantial allegations” of voting issues “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.”
