Discover more from @amuse
BOMBSHELL: Attorney General William Barr Didn't Conduct a Single Election Fraud Investigation
Barr’s claim that there was NO election fraud that could have impacted the outcome of the 2020 election was a baseless attempt to mislead both the president and the nation.
Six days after the 2020 presidential election, as a result of an unprecedented number of election irregularities reported in at least eight states, Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum authorizing a widespread investigation of the election.1 Barr then unleashed 93 United States Attorneys, 3 Assistant Attorney Generals, and the entire FBI to get to the bottom of the irregularities. Barr’s directive was NOT popular among the DOJ’s rank and file. It was so unpopular that the director of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch resigned from the role he had held for a decade. Richard Pilger emailed his colleagues announcing he would be stepping down due to his strong belief that the DOJ should NOT investigate election fraud until AFTER congress had certified the election for Joe Biden.2
Less than one month after Barr ordered the investigations and Pilger stepped down Attorney General Barr told the Associated Press,
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election."
This pronouncement was seminal to dozens of fact-checks that were used to suppress, censor, and deplatform millions of Americans who were attempting to discuss their concerns about the election on social media.3 Despite the importance of this issue there was an utter lack of interest in the details of the investigations that Barr ordered. How many were there? What were the findings? How about the story about tens of thousands of ballots shipped over state lines? Was the truck driver lying?
At least one U.S. Attorney claimed, that despite Barr’s memorandum and order to investigate allegations of election fraud, he was ordered NOT to actually investigate. William McSwain, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of PA, wrote to President Trump telling him he was,
“…right to be upset about the way the Democrats ran the 2020 election in Pennsylvania – it was a partisan disgrace. The Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the partisan State Supreme Court made up their own rules and did not follow the law. On Election Day and afterward, our Office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities. As part of my responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations. Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities.”4
Barr denied McSwain’s allegations stating, “It’s [the letter] written to make it seem like I gave him a directive. I never told him not to investigate anything.”5
While Barr’s determination was unequivocal, details of the investigations continue to be scant. To get a better idea of just how many investigations were conducted and their scope, former United States Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark began sending out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to a dozen United States Attorney districts in battleground states to get to the bottom of what their investigations uncovered. Barr made it clear that the investigations had uncovered minimal fraud but that it had NOT impacted the outcome of the election. Clark was aware of McSwain’s claim so he wanted to determine if other U.S. Attorneys had similar stories or if they had been able to conduct their own investigations.
Last week we learned that after receiving FOIA requests, eleven of the twelve districts were unable to provide ANY evidence that a single election fraud investigation was opened after Barr’s November 9th memorandum.6 The only district that didn’t respond to Clark’s FOIA request was the Eastern District of PA - former U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s district. Contrary to Attorney General Barr’s claim, there were NO federal investigations into ANY of the widespread claims of election fraud. Barr’s December 1st, 2020 claim that “we have not seen fraud…” was technically true ONLY because neither DOJ nor the FBI was looking for fraud. Barr lied to the president and continues to lie to the American people.7
In fact, U.S. Attorney William McSwain was one of the only of the nation’s USAs to actually investigate ANY election fraud in 2020. As a result, McSwain's office ultimately charged former Democratic United States Representative Michael Myers was charged with stuffing ballot boxes in South Philadelphia.8 Myers ran a powerful political machine that controlled almost all Ward Leaders, Election Judges, and even the Democratic State Committee. As a result of Barr's statement that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud, any mention of the investigation into Myers on Twitter was met with an immediate and permanent suspension. More than 10,000 PA Republicans were deplatformed from Twitter for attempting to discuss Myers' fraud - today they're known as the #PA10K.
After Myers’ indictment on 13 felony counts of election fraud, Twitter loosened the enforcement of its Civic Integrity Policy but the damage was already done and the company has made NO effort to restore the accounts of conservatives who were wrongfully purged.9 Just last month, a year after the indictment, we finally learned just how widespread election fraud in Philadelphia has been for years when Myer finally admitted his crimes and pled guilty facing up to 60 years in prison and million dollars in fines.
Rep. Myers admitted to making cash payments to most South Philadelphia-area election officials. Starting in 2014 Myers installed almost every Ward Leader, Election Judge, and even the Democratic State Committee from South Philadelphia. In fact, if you wanted a judgeship in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas or Municipal Court you were required to make a payment to Myers who would then share that payment with various other election officials disguised as “Get Out The Vote” payments.
One election official that worked with Myers was Domenick DeMuro the 39th Ward’s Election Judge. Myers would call DeMuro and let him know exactly how many votes a particular candidate needed. DuMuro would then add the necessary votes in the ExpressVoteXL computer system and in return he’d receive between $300 and $5,000 per election. In some federal elections, DuMuro would increase Democratic votes by as much as 25%. DuMuro would then certify the election results and send the certification to the City Commissioners. DuMuro pled guilty in May 2020.
Myers managed to install one woman, Marie Beren, as the defacto Election Judge for three different Wards starting as far back as 1988. Myers would instruct Beren on which candidates needed votes and in turn, she would advise in-person voters who to vote for and cast fraudulent ballots on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls. If voter turnout was high Myers would instruct Beren to add fewer fraudulent votes and if Myers’ candidate was comfortably ahead he’d instruct Beren to “throw support” behind another candidate on election day to obscure their fraud. In some federal elections, Beren would increase Democratic votes by as much as 45%. Beren would then certify the election results and send the certification to the City Commissioners.
This one case revealed that election fraud in Philadelphia was, in fact, widespread in every election prior to 2020 including the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 elections. What happened in 2020? Interestingly, for some reason, that wasn’t addressed in this particular case. In the 2016 election Election Judges in Philadelphia counted 560,542 votes for Clinton - 82% of the vote - we now know that as many as 25% or 140,000 of those votes might be fraudulent. Fast forward to the 2020 election and Election Judges counted 606,690 votes for Biden - 81% of the vote. South Philadelphia Ward Leaders ensured their constituents requested ballots for their neighborhoods at rates 20 times of the average Pennsylvania neighborhood - meaning that half of the votes counted by Election Judges were mailed in avoiding the traditional scrutiny and oversight in-person voting receives. Unbelievably, Biden outperformed his former running mate, President Obama in South Philadelphia by a country mile.10
It makes you wonder if Democratic Election Judges might have continued the sort of fraud they pled guilty to between 2014 and 2018 in 2020 too? Biden only won the entire state of Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes - it isn’t too hard to believe that Democratic Election Judges in Philadelphia could have given Biden that edge.
The 2020 election is over. Joe Biden is president and nothing I write will change that. But what about the 10,000 Pennsylvania Republicans who have been deplatformed from Twitter for discussing the widespread election fraud? The Department of Justice obtained three convictions proving the fraud was very real. Shouldn’t Twitter allow them to return to the digital town square and rejoin public discourse? The 10,000 Pennsylvania Republicans deplatformed by Twitter (PA10K) are just one small example of how conservative voices have been silenced by Democrats and their willing accomplices in Big Tech.
The fact that the mainstream media and big tech used the word of one man - William Barr - to suppress, censor, and deplatform millions of Americans is the real problem. Yes, Barr lied but lying isn’t new - what is new are the fact-check systems we allow to control speech in this country. Barr’s false claim is STILL used to ‘debunk’ claims of election fraud - even discussion of Rep Michael Myers’ fraud - fraud that he admitted to under oath resulting in a lengthy prison sentence.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20403380-barrelectionmemo110920
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/djtweb/general/Letter_to_President_Trump.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/13/barr-election-fraud-claims-499519
https://rumble.com/v1l3jxp-barr-lied-foia-requests-reveal-there-were-no-doj-investigations-on-fraud-af.html
https://nworeport.me/2022/09/22/barr-lied-foia-requests-reveal-there-were-no-doj-investigations-on-election-fraud-after-2020-election/
http://thf-legal.s3.amazonaws.com/Voter%20Fraud%20Database/37th%20Batch/Michael%20Myers%202022%20PA%20Source%202.pdf
Dale, Daniel. “Twitter Says It Has Quit Taking Action against Lies about the 2020 Election.” CNN, Cable News Network, 29 Jan. 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/twitter-lies-2020-election/index.html
Jones, Layla A. “Philadelphia Turnout for the 2020 Election Was the Highest in 25 Years.” Billy Penn, Billy Penn, 9 Dec. 2020, https://billypenn.com/2020/11/17/philly-turnout-2020-lower-obama-trump-biden/.
Subscribe to @amuse
@amuse (formerly Politique Republic) is a newsletter dedicated to the political issues facing America from a conservative viewpoint.