William Barr, who was the Attorney General at the time, said that Donald Trump was more focused on the allegations of voter fraud than the facts.
The House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol riot aired Barr's testimony on Monday as part of the second of their six public hearings.
On December 14, 2020, Barr met with Trump. According to Barr, Trump went off on a monologue during the meeting about what he claimed to be irrefutable evidence of election fraud being carried out via the voting machines.
Trump claimed that the report showed that the machines were rigged. According to Barr, Trump declared that he would have a second term.
The Washington Post reports that there has been no evidence to show that the voting machines have ever been exploited.
The baseless conspiracy theory that the machines were used to flip votes between Trump and Biden during the 2020 presidential election has been promoted by two of Trump's attorneys. The baseless theory is being pushed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell who recently announced that he would be releasing a documentary to spread the word.
Barr found the report to beateurish and didn't include the credentials of those who created it. The report stated that the machines were designed to engage in fraud but didn't provide any evidence.
I was demoralized because I thought he would lose contact with it if he really believed it. Barr told the January 6 panel's investigators that he had become detached from reality if he really believed in things.
According to the former attorney-general, he told Trump that some of the allegations were crazy. There was no indication of interest in what the actual facts were.
During this testimony, Barr declared that he does not believe in voter fraud claims. He chuckled at the film "2000 Mules" during his deposition and said it did not change his belief that the election was not stolen.
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