Donald Trump announces that his Minister of Justice, Bill Barr, will step down
After denying the existence of massive electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election, which earned him criticism from President Donald Trump, the US justice minister will resign before Christmas. His deputy Jeff Rosen will act as interim until President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
A new start in the Trump administration. The American Minister of Justice, Bill Barr, who had suffered criticism from Donald Trump for not having denounced alleged electoral fraud, which the president said could invalidate the victory of Joe Biden, announced Monday, December 14 his resignation.
"Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family, Assistant Justice Minister Jeff Rosen, an incredible person, will take over," the outgoing president tweeted, without repeating his accusations. The minister will thus leave one month before the democratic president-elect takes office.
Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family ...
The announcement of his departure coincides with the confirmation of Joe Biden's victory by the American voters, which makes it almost final. Donald Trump persists in denouncing massive fraud and refuses to acknowledge his defeat. But his camp has never managed to provide any evidence to support these accusations and the dozens of legal appeals he brought have been almost all rejected, including by the Supreme Court.
The Republican president has repeatedly deplored the inaction on this ground of Bill Barr, yet one of his most faithful ministers. However, the latter isolated Donald Trump a little more by asserting, in early December, that he had found no "fraud on a scale likely to change the result of the election".
In recent days, the ex-real estate mogul has also called "a big disappointment" the fact that the Minister of Justice did not reveal before the November election the existence of an investigation into the situation. tax of Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
"Willingly"
Donald Trump said he had Monday "a very nice meeting" with Bill Barr at the White House. "Our relationship is excellent, he did a magnificent job," he said.
In his resignation letter, tweeted by the president, the resigning minister praised the latter's record and his "unprecedented success" in all areas. He said he kept Donald Trump informed of the Justice Department's investigation into "allegations of election fraud." "At a time of deep divisions in the country, all levels of state" must "do everything to ensure the integrity of the elections and promote the confidence of voters in their results," he said.
"Barr resigned of his own free will. He was not pressured or forced to resign," assured a senior American official, referring to a "friendly" interview with the president.
