Trump said Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, whom he labeled “an outstanding person,” will become Acting Attorney General
By Michael Balsamo, NBC
Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, is departing amid lingering tension over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son.
Barr went Monday to the White House, where Trump said the attorney general submitted his letter of resignation. “As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family,” Trump tweeted.
Trump has publicly expressed his anger about Barr’s statement to The Associated Press earlier this month that the Justice Department had found no widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the election. Trump has also been angry that the Justice Department did not publicly announce it was investigating Hunter Biden ahead of the election, despite department policy against such a pronouncement.
Barr told the AP that U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
In his resignation letter, Barr said he updated Trump Monday on the department’s “review of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election and how these allegations will continue to be pursued.” He added that his last day on the job would be Dec. 23.
Trump said Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, whom he labeled “an outstanding person,” will become acting attorney general. As the current second in command at the Justice Department, Rosen’s appointment is not likely to change much in the final weeks before the administration departs.
Trump spent much of the day watching the Electoral College tally and calling allies but broke away to meet with Barr. His tweet about the Attorney General’s exit was a sober message from a president who is notoriously cold to his departing staff and quick to name-call and deride them once they say they are leaving.
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Trump has also has previously claimed he fired staffers who resigned to make himself appear more powerful, and others, like former attorney general Jeff Sessions, were mocked by the president for weeks before they left office.
But despite Trump’s obvious disdain for those who publicly disagree with him, Barr had generally remained in the president’s good graces and has been one of the president’s most ardent allies. Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voting could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans feared going to polls.
But Trump has a low tolerance for criticism, especially public criticism, from his allies and often fires back in kind. The two had been at odds in the past few months and Barr was said to have been frustrated by Trump’s tweeting.
Trump said on Fox News over the weekend that he was disappointed that the Hunter Biden investigation had not been disclosed. Hunter Biden himself announced it last week.
“Bill Barr should have stepped up,” Trump said.
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Just happened to be only in Obamatite held states and RINO states.. Using Hugo. Chavez dominion vote falsifying computers and fabricated vote dumps. Financed by the same people who helped the Wahan labs and co opted China. Otherwise all was… fraud. President Trump has done a fantastic job.
The Hawaiian or Kenyan specimen got a Nobel… for nothing and President Trump who brought peace to our region… not given credit.
Is Michael Balsamo joking? “Baseless claims of election fraud”?? Swampsters like AG Barr, and reporters employed by swampsters, like Balsamo, are facilitating the massive coup attempt against the United States. This election is not about Democrats and Republicans, it is about American sovereignty and Communist China. Beijing Joe Biden kneels to China, President Trump stands up for America.
Follow the money – always follow the money. The Chinese have been buying greedy Washington politicians and greedy business giants for decades. If the media weren’t so corrupt, and so financially invested in China, it would be doing forensic accounting and investigative reporting on all Trump’s enemies. The list is very long.
@ Davidowitz:
That would be a poor plan to make Harris the President..So don’t believe such stuff. Stick to facts as you know them to be.
I now believe a report written in Israpundit a few weeks ago, where one of your reporters stated that Barr was a member of the “deep state”. If true, then good riddance. Perhaps God’s plan is for Biden to take office on the 20th Jan, and be arrested a few weeks later.