Trump intervenes in Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial primary
Former President Donald Trump waded into Pennsylvania's GOP gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, slamming a former acolyte over his alleged failure to investigate Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud. Trump's attack prompted another high-profile candidate to reconsider his decision to...
Last summer, when McSwain asked for Trump's endorsement, the former prosecutor criticized the manner in which Pennsylvania’s presidential election was run but claimed that Trump's attorney general, Bill Barr, had blocked him from investigating potential irregularities. Barr told him to pass along any “serious allegations” of election fraud to Shapiro's office, McSwain said in a letter seeking Trump's imprimatur.
Barr disputed McSwain's account, saying the order came from a top deputy, not him. He told The Philadelphia Inquirer that McSwain was never told to “stand down” from investigating.
McSwain “told me that he had to do this because he was under pressure from Trump and for him to have a viable candidacy he couldn’t have Trump attacking him,” Barr told the paper last year. So McSwain “tried to thread the needle” by saying “things that were technically true” without giving “support to Trump’s stolen election narrative,” Barr said.
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Poor repubs are so desperate to have TFG love them, they are starting to lie on each other. That is very sad.....
