Trump’s attorney general says he knew claims of hacked voting machines were ‘bulls***’

Former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked man to lead the Justice Department excoriated his former boss’s claims about election fraud in a series of interviews with Jonathan Karl, who served as White House correspondent for ABC News throughout the Trump presidency.

In interviews for Betrayal, Karl’s upcoming book detailing the final days of Mr Trump’s term in the White House, the former attorney general spoke about numerous theories floated by his former boss and Mr Trump’s supporters for his election loss to President Joe Biden, including allegations that voting machines operated by Dominion Voting Systems were hacked to alter vote totals.

“We realized from the beginning it was just bulls***,” Mr Barr told Karl, according to excerpts published in The Atlantic. “It’s a counting machine, and they save everything that was counted. So you just reconcile the two. There had been no discrepancy reported anywhere, and I’m still not aware of any discrepancy.”