Honig: Don't buy Bill Barr's latest story about the Big Lie (Opinion)
William Barr's image rehabilitation tour has begun. Don't buy it.
Despite Barr's belated, post-election resistance to former President Donald Trump's delusional claims of massive voter fraud -- which Barr eagerly amplifies in self-aggrandizing fashion in a new interview he granted to The Atlantic -- make no mistake: Barr bears as much responsibility as anybody other than Trump himself for spreading the malicious lie that ultimately resulted in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Barr spoke to the Atlantic about his post-election turnabout, which culminated in his December 1, 2020, public statement to the Associated Press that "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election." Barr tells of how he stood up to Trump, invoking Trump's wrath during the frantic post-election weeks when Trump tried desperately to overturn the election's results.
But Barr conveniently omits the crucial fact that, for months before his endgame turnabout, he had been relentlessly parroting and amplifying Trump's most dangerous lies about election fraud throughout the runup to the November 2020 election.
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