Former AG Bill Barr says no one except Steve Bannon knew of Trump's
plans to prematurely declare victory and subvert the 2020 election

"Bill Barr says no one but Steve Bannon knew of Trump's plans to stay in
office in 2020.

"I don't know anyone else who heard of it — except, it appears, Steve Bannon," Barr told Bari Weiss."

"Bannon said in October 2020 audio obtained by Mother Jones that Trump
would "just declare victory.: "

"What Trump's gonna do, is just declare victory. Right? He's gonna
declare victory. But that doesn't mean he's a winner," Bannon said in
the audio from that day. "He's just gonna say he's a winner."

"Bannon also predicted there would be riots and violence from Antifa — a left-wing movement of anti-facists — at the White House on election
night, saying, "They think there's gonna be 20 or 25,000 Antifa will
surround the White House, particularly if Trump is leaving."

"I don't know where it came from. It could have been preparing the
ground if you lose, and I think both sides were doing it," Barr said.

Barr testified about Trump's efforts to stay in power in 2020 before the
House January 6 Committee. But Bannon, a onetime Trump adviser and GOP strategist who hosts the popular War Room podcast defied a subpoena from
the committee and was charged with contempt of Congress by the
Department of Justice. Bannon was convicted after a trial in July and is
set to be sentenced in October.

Barr said on the podcast that he "underestimated" how far Trump would go
in his quest to overturn the 2020 election and stay in office. Barr gave
Trump his resignation as attorney general in mid-December after all
states had certified their votes and the Electoral College voted to
elect President Joe Biden.

"I thought it was safe to leave at that point, and I was wrong," Barr
said. "I did not expect him to take it as far as he did with these very
whacky legal theories that no one gave any credence to."

Antifa did not descend on Washington. But, true to Bannon's first
prediction, Trump declared victory shortly after 2 a.m. on election
night in remarks in the East Room where he baselessly claimed the
election was tainted by massive fraud and said, "frankly, we did win
this election."

"Suggesting there was major fraud as early as he did, in retrospect,
looks to me like that was the plan on election night," Barr said."

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