Former Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with members of the House Jan. 6 committee that he told former President Donald Trump that there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, according to video played during the committee’s June 9 primetime hearing.
Barr said he had several conversations with Trump before the Jan. 6 attack.
“That is one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when I did. I observed … that you can’t live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election,” Barr testified in a deposition before the committee.
The hearing June 9 was the first of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee in the coming weeks. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.
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