US election: Attorney General Barr sees no evidence of election fraud 

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According to Minister William Barr, the US Justice Department has so far found no evidence of the election fraud alleged by US President Donald Trump on a large scale.

Prosecutors and FBI agents across the country were investigating complaints and indications of alleged fraud.

"To date, we have not seen any fraud on the scale that could have led to a different election result," Barr told the American news agency AP.

The attorney general contradicted the representation of Trump.

The incumbent US president continues to claim that his Democratic challenger Joe Biden only won the November 3rd election because of massive fraud and continues to refuse to recognize his victory.

Trump has not presented any reliable evidence of electoral fraud.

He tries to challenge the election result with a wave of lawsuits.

The attorney’s remarks come as a surprise: Barr is considered an important confidante of Trump and has repeatedly kept his back to the president in the past.

Before the election, the Justice Minister, like Trump, had speculated that the increased use of postal voting in the Corona year could lead to election fraud.

A week after the election, Barr issued a directive to US prosecutors allowing them to investigate "substantive allegations" of election fraud.

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With this order, the prosecutors were able to bypass a directive of the Ministry of Justice, which actually prohibits such a procedure before the official confirmation of the election results.

Top electoral crime prosecutor Richard Pilger announced his resignation in response to Barr's memo.

"Numerous evidence of illegal voting"

Trump's attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis immediately contradicted the Justice Minister: There was not even "the appearance of an investigation by the Justice Department".

There is ample evidence of “illegal voting in at least six states”.

Barr apparently said "without knowledge" of the matter.

The Attorney General was seen arriving at the White House shortly after the AP interview was published.

Other electoral officials and experts had already contradicted Trump's presentation.

Among other things, the authority responsible for the security of elections, Cisa in the US Department of Homeland Security, had stated that it had no evidence of election fraud.

In fact, it was said to have been the safest choice in US history.

Numerous states have now certified the election results, including the embattled key states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

The country's 538 electorate will vote on the future president on December 14th.

Biden secured 306 voters in the elections, and he needed at least 270 voters to win.

The former vice president is due to be sworn in as the 46th president in US history on January 20.