Donald Trump's Justice Chief Told Him Poll Fraud Claims Were Bogus: Report

US election fraud claims: Donald Trump's attorney general Bill Barr said in an interview that a Senate Republican leader had even asked him to quell the former president's allegations.

President Donald Trump's attorney general Bill Barr told him a month after the 2020 election that allegations of voter fraud were groundless, but Trump rejected that, the Atlantic magazine reported. Barr told reporter Jonathan Karl in interviews that as soon as Trump's defeat by Democrat Joe Biden was clear after the November 3 vote, he ordered the Justice Department to conduct an informal review of Trump's sweeping claims of illegal ballots and voting machine rigging in multiple states. "We realized from the beginning it was just bullshit," Barr told Karl, an ABC News reporter who will publish a book on Trump's last days in office later this year. According to the Atlantic article, published Sunday, after the election Barr was repeatedly urged privately by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to quell Trump's allegations.