This WP story about how Bill Barr confidently, even pugnaciously, told CNN viewers about a massive mail-in ballots fraud incident in Texas that never happened, is a reminder of some other things like that. /1
Like that time in July when he said a surge of federal agents sent to Kansas City had made 200 arrests in two weeks, which was false. /2
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Like that time in June when he told the public that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, had resigned, which was false. /3 nytimes.com/2020/06/19/nyr…
Like that time in April when he told Fox News that an inspector general Trump had fired, Michael Atkinson, tried to send the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress without exec branch review and ignored DOJ, which was false. /4 nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/…
That same time in April he also told Fox News that the FBI had opened its 2016 investigation into whether Trump campaign officials were coordinating with Russia’s election interference “without any basis,” which was false. /5
And of course there was his description to the public of the then-still secret Mueller investigation report, which a federal judge said was so “distorted” and “misleading” that the judiciary could not trust his DOJ to be candid on that topic. /6 nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/…
