President Donald Trump is running out of wrenches to throw at the gears of democracy.
Since prematurely and incorrectly declaring victory on the night of the election, Trump and his legal team have launched dozens of lawsuits seeking to overturn the results of the presidential race in pivotal states like Nevada, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. They have lost nearly all of them. The few court victories they have notched, meanwhile, have been immaterial to the outcome of the race. Now, US attorney general William Barr has foreclosed another potential avenue of attack, shutting down Trump’s election conspiracy theories in an interview with the Associated Press.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr said.
That conclusion has long been apparent to anyone outside of the Trump campaign’s misinformation vortex. But it’s still significant coming from Barr, who has to this point proven all too willing to protect Trump’s interests. Not only did Barr baldly misrepresent special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference and Trump’s obstruction of justice, he spent the months before the election overhyping the threat of vote-by-mail fraud.
Even after the election, Barr had intimated that the Justice Department could act on Trump’s behalf. On November 9, he wrote a memo that authorized federal prosecutors to investigate “substantial allegations of votin ..
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