Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that
mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned former President
Donald Trump’s false post-election claims that the 2020 contest had been stolen from him.
“I stand by all of that,” Barr told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “My view is that in such a closely divided country with so much at stake, we have to keep strong protections against fraud and protect the integrity of the election, and I think when they are diluted and reduced – which they were – then people are not going to have confidence in the election, whether or not fraud occurs.”