How Bill Barr's Silence Impacted the Outcome of an Election

On May 18, 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr made a statement to the media, declaring that special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Russiagate hoax wasn't focused on either former President Barack Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden, stating that "I don't expect Mr. Durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man."

Barr recounts in his book that he felt it was unacceptable for Trump to attempt to drag his presidential election opponent into the Russiagate scandal and that Barr felt that it was incumbent upon him to make a public statement.

Barr recently recounted that he "Was very disturbed during the debate when candidate Biden lied to the American people about the laptop." Barr told Fox News in an interview that Biden "Was squarely confronted with the laptop and he suggested that it was Russian disinformation. And I was shocked by that. When you're talking about interference in an election, I can't think of anything more than that kind of thing."

Barr's supposed "Shock" over Biden's claims of Russian disinformation during the debate begs a simple question: If Barr actually felt that Biden's assertions of "Russian disinformation" amounted to "Interference in an election," why didn't Barr say anything at the time?

During his recent interview, Barr conceded that he knew that letter from our nation's intelligence officials "Was baseless" and that he believed Biden himself fully understood that it "Was a lie." Unlike Trump, Biden was citing published claims by intelligence officials that Barr now says he knew to be inaccurate at the time those claims were made.

Barr apparently felt that it was necessary to make sure that U.S. citizens were aware that Biden wasn't under investigation as a part of Durham's probe, but he didn't feel it was important to counter a false narrative from former intelligence officials, including four CIA directors, that Barr knew to be untrue.

Barr argues in his book that Trump's claims about Biden required Barr to insert himself because he didn't want a repeat of the Russia collusion claims that plagued the 2016 election; that same argument should have required Barr to speak out on Biden's debate claims that Hunter's laptop was a Russian plot.
 

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