Inside Trump’s effort to “take over” the midterms
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In December 2020, Attorney General William Barr met with federal officials to discuss Donald Trump's claims of election fraud. Barr was told there was no evidence of widespread fraud, and he eventually resigned after telling Trump the truth.
In December 2020, Attorney General William Barr met with federal officials to discuss election fraud claims. The meeting was held at the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Barr asked experts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to investigate allegations of voting machine hacking in Antrim County, Michigan. The experts found that a clerk's mistake had caused a software problem, leading to incorrect vote transfers. There was no evidence of fraud, just human error. Barr met with Trump in the Oval Office and told him the truth, which led to his resignation. Trump's claims of election fraud continued, and his demands intensified after Barr's departure. The institutional guardrails of American democracy held, but an examination by ProPublica found that they would be largely missing if faced with the same tests today.
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