Whether admitted to or not, 72-year-old former Atty. Gen. William [Bill] Barr has become the latest hero to the anti-Trump crowd, busy building a criminal case for obstruction of Congress or interfering with the peaceful transition of power for 76-year-old former President Donald Trump. For his time as Attorney General, Barr was considered Trump’s “lapdog” by Democrats and the press. Now conducting one of the most political investigation in U.S. history, the Jan. 6 House Select Committee hearings rely on Barr as their star witness. Jan. 6 committee hopes, at the conclusion of hearings, to write a blockbuster report urging 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to indict Trump for interfering with the orderly transition of power or obstructing Congress in their Constitutional duties. Barr, once hated by Democrats and the press, has become the Committee’s star witness.

Barr said if he didn’t investigate the Nov. 3, 2020 election for fraud, he was “not sure we would have had a transition at all,” meaning Trump would have stayed in office until thrown out by U.S. marshals or someone else. Before Barr left office Dec. 23, 2020, he told Trump that claims of election fraud were “bullshit,” admitting at the time that Trump was “delusional,” incapable of recognizing reality. Not one court in any state validated Trump’s claims of voter fraud, leaving the lonely president to make his case to his base, not supported by any facts. Barr thinks that he helped motivate Trump to leave the White House after realizing that his claims of voter fraud were not supported by any investigation or certainly any court. Barr has become a hero to the House Select Committee trying to make a criminal case for referral to Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland when they conclude their investigation.

No one really knows how universal mail-in ballots affected the outcome of the 2020 vote. State voting agencies, for the most part, decided to mail ballots to all registered voters, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. Whether that affected the vote in favor of Democrats is anyone’s guess. Democrats enjoy a 25% registration advantage over Republicans. Trump’s claims of voter fraud in places like Georgia or Arizona involved accusing election officials of adding thousands of Biden-friendly votes to the counting machines. Trump’s advisers, led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accused state voting officials of stuffing ballot boxes with fake votes or manipulating Dominion voting systems, something resulting in a defamation suit. Barr expressed concerns about what would have happened had the Justice Department not investigated the 2020 election.

Barr told the Jan. 6 Select Committee that he tried to talk to Trump about the fact that no significant fraud could be found. But instead of accepting the results, Trump continued on with his fixed belief about voter fraud. Trump couldn’t stomach the fact that he was so demonized in the run-up the Nov. 3, 2020 election, that most voters saw him as white supremacist, authoritarian dictator and someone who botched the Covid-19 pandemic. Trump was thoroughly discredited by the U.S. press, all joined Democrats in opposing his reelection. Trump couldn’t see that a majority of voters did not want to give him a second term. “I sort of shudder to thin what the situation would have been if the position of the department was: We’re not even going to look at this until after Biden’s in office,” Barr told the Committee. Barr gave his deposition to the Committee back in June, early on in the investigation.

Whatever Trump’s current or past state of mind, the Jan. 6 Committee would like to see a criminal referral to Merrick Garland’s Justice Department. Any criminal referral would all but end speculation about whether or not Trump might run again in 2024, something most Democrats would like to see. But whether Democrats wish to see Trump indicted or not, there’s no guarantee they have a solid criminal case against him. It’s easy for the biased House Select Committee to vilify Trump because they’re primarily a political body, even though they present like their conducting an objective investigation. When you listed to partisan Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) or Trump haters like Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), there’s nothing objective about the hearings. Both would sell their souls to see Trump behind bars, whether he deserved it or not. Democrats want to prevent Trump from running in 2024.

How ironic that the man they called Trump’s “lapdog,” former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr, has become the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s latest hero in their effort to ring Trump up on criminal charges. Barr certainly did his part to help Trump see that his department found no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. When asked why he investigated the 2020 election, Barr said he would “follow the regular course of action and let the investigations occur much later in time,” meaning he wanted to help Trump to see there was no significant voter fraud. Barr said it was the “responsible thing to do was to be in the position to have a view as to whether or not there was fraud,” Barr said, hoping Trump; would start packing his bags. “Frankly, I think the fact that I put myself in the position that I could say that we had looked at this and didn’t think there was fraud was really important,” Barr told the Committee.