The outgoing United States president, Donald Trump, is excited over the news that the U.S. Attorney General, William Barr, has in a memo authorized the Justice Department (DOJ) to look into voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden has already secured the 270 electoral college mandate to win the election, but Trump is insisting that the election was stolen.
On November 10, Trump shared the news of the 2020 election enquiry as published by right wing conservative media, Brietbart.
According to BrietBart, William Barr memo was addressed and signed from Barr to U.S. Attorneys, the assistant attorneys general for the DOJ’s criminal division, civil rights division, the national security division, and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray.
“Now that the voting has concluded, it is imperative that the American people can trust that our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes accurately reflect the will of the voters,” the memo read.
Brietbart said Barr’s memo comes after 39 House Republicans pressed Barr in a letter on Friday to allow available DOJ resources to look into allegations of voting irregularities across the country in several key battleground states which already, the Trump campaign has filed a number of lawsuits in some of those states.
According to Brietbart, Barr said in his memo that, although the states have the primary responsibility to conduct and supervise elections, the DOJ has “an obligation to ensure that federal elections are conducted in such a way that the American people can have full confidence in their electoral process and their government.”
The report also said while “most allegations” of purported election misconduct are of such a scale that they would not impact the outcome of an election that their investigation can be deferred, “that is not always the case.”
He also said he has already authorized the DOJ to pursue substantial allegations of voting and voting tabulation irregularities in specific instances.
“Given this, and given that voting in our current elections has now concluded, I authorize you to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in your jurisdictions in certain cases, as I have already done in specific instances,” he said.