Barr, William P
A Striking Contrast: Trump Officials Then and Now
The letter was lavish. When William P. Barr stepped down as attorney general in December 2020, he showered President Donald J. Trump with praise for his “unprecedented achievements” and vowed that the Justice Department would continue to pursue the president’s claims of voter fraud “to ensure the integrity of elections.” A year and a half […]
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Jan. 6 Panel Tracks How Trump Created and Spread Election Lies
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol made a wide-ranging case on Monday that former President Donald J. Trump created and relentlessly spread the lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him in the face of mounting evidence from an expanding chorus of advisers that he […]
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Trump Hits Back at Daughter’s Account That She Accepted His Election Loss
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump, long known for distancing himself from or tossing aside staff members who contradicted him while he was in the White House, discovered a new target on Friday: his elder daughter. The morning after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol played recorded video testimony […]
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Panel Suggests Trump Knew He Lost the Election, Eyeing Criminal Case
Mr. Eastman, the conservative lawyer who advised Mr. Trump that Vice President Mike Pence could throw out electoral votes from states he had lost, conceded during a conversation with Mr. Pence’s top lawyer, Greg Jacob, that his arguments carried no legal weight and would fail before the Supreme Court. A rejection of electors by the […]
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Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir
WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General William P. Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.” In the book, “One Damn Thing […]
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