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Since he was con­firmed as attor­ney gen­er­al, William Barr has been some­what of a hero in the right-wing media uni­verse. He has assailed the Rus­sia probe. He has talked a big game about crack­ing down on Antifa. He has sharply crit­i­cized the news media. On and on it goes.

But his celebri­ty sta­tus took a hit on Tues­day when he under­cut Pres­i­dent Trump’s brazen­ly false con­tention that there was mas­sive vot­er fraud in the 2020 elec­tion. Speak­ing to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press, Barr said that, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effect­ed a dif­fer­ent out­come in the election.”