The big news today was a series of interviews that former attorney general William Barr did with Jonathan D. Karl of The Atlantic, in which Barr emphasized that former president Trump\u2019s claims that he had won the 2020 election were \u201cbullshit.\u201d What is interesting about this is not the idea that Barr stood against Trump\u2019s claims of a win. In fact, shortly after the election, Barr fed the Big Lie. A week after the 2020 election, he overturned Justice Department policy to investigate \u201csubstantial allegations\u201d of vote irregularities that \u201ccould potentially impact the outcome\u201d of the election. Now he is saying that he took this unusual action because he knew Trump would ask him about allegations of fraud and wanted to be able to say he had looked into them. But his stance fed the idea that Trump had been cheated of victory.<\/p>\n