Attorney General Barr Schools CNN Host On Mail-in Ballots Fraud

The Attorney General mopped the floor with CNN's Wolf Blitzer Wednesday, as the CNN's far left host asked one ridiculous 'gotcha' question after another.

Blitzer read this quote from President Trump's comments to WECT reporter on mail-in ballots: “They will vote and then they are going to have to check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way because if it tabulates then they won’t be able to do that. So let them send it in, and let them go vote. And if the system is as good as they say it is, then they obviously won’t be able to vote [at the poll]. If it isn’t tabulated, they will be able to vote. So that’s the way it is, and that’s what they should do. I don’t like the idea of these unsolicited votes. I never did. It leads to a lot of problems."

The CNN host claims that the president's comments "sounds like he's encouraging people to break the law, and try to vote twice."

Barr rejected the CNN host's interpretation of Trump's comments. "It seems to me ... he's trying to make the point that the ability to monitor the system is not good,"the AG said. "And if it was so good, if you try to vote a second time, you'd be caught."

Both men argued back and forth before Barr snapped: “Wolf, this is sort of cheap talk to get around the fundamental problem which is the bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009 that that mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion.” 

He continued: "And since that time there have been in the newspapers, in networks, [in] academic studies saying it is open to fraud and coercion. The only time the narrative changed is after this administration came in. But elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion."

Blitzer ridiculously asserted that there's not been widespread fraud discovered in the mail-in ballots system.

The AG pointed out that "we haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots that’s being proposed [by Democrats]."

Barr also noted that the Department of Justice(DOJ) recently indicted a man in Texas for taking over 1700 ballots made out to other people and filling them out for who he wanted to win.

The AG warned that mail-in voting is dangerous given the prevailing divisive political climate. “Wolf this is playing with fire!" Barr said. "We’re a very closely divided country here. And people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government. And people trying to change the rules to this methodology, which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous! And people are playing with fire!”

WATCH the exchange between Attorney General Barr and CNN's Wolf Blitzer