Barr\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0The Wall Street Journal that a Department of Justice (DOJ) rule against publicly confirming probes that involve candidates for office is \u201cnot absolute\u201d and that he could think of scenarios in which the government has \u201cdecisive evidence of a serious crime against a candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n Absent such decisive evidence, though, Barr said, there\u2019s \u201cdamn good reason for the rule,\u201d which protects candidates and people in their orbits from the government.<\/p>\n \u201cThink about the power it would give the federal bureaucracy,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Barr said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe standard for investigating someone is low. So just gin up an investigation, make it public, affect every election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Barr, in expressing no regrets, tacitly expressed for the first time that he knew\u00a0Hunter Biden<\/a>\u00a0was under investigation by federal authorities before Nov. 3 but didn\u2019t let the public know.<\/p>\n Attorney General William Barr (L) speaks with President Donald Trump during briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in a file photo. (Patrick Semansky\/AP Photo)<\/em><\/p>\n Joe Biden\u2019s team released a statement from the younger Biden last week, in which Hunter Biden acknowledged he was being investigated.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,\u201d Hunter Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cI take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n His father\u00a0has said<\/a>\u00a0he believes his son did nothing wrong and has confidence in him.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hunter Biden (L) embraces his father, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 7, 2020. (Andrew Harnik\/Pool\/AP Photo)<\/em><\/p>\n Barr\u2019s refusal to make the Hunter Biden probe seemed to upset President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy didn\u2019t Bill Barr reveal the truth to the public, before the Election, about Hunter Biden. Joe was lying on the debate stage that nothing was wrong, or going on,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Trump wrote in one tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In an interview with Fox News, Trump added:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cJoe Biden lied on the debate stage. He said \u2018there\u2019s nothing happening, nothing happening,\u2019 and Bill Barr should have stepped up. Say what you want about Robert Mueller, when [a news outlet] put out a phony article \u2026 Bob Mueller stepped out and he said that article was a phony and then there was ultimately proven there was no collusion. Bill Barr should have done the same thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mueller, who was appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump\u2019s alleged links to Russia, on multiple occasions during the investigation responded strongly to assertions made in various reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBuzzFeed\u2019s description of specific statements to the special counsel\u2019s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen\u2019s Congressional testimony are not accurate,\u201d Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller\u2019s office, said in a statement in January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Buzzfeed had claimed Trump had\u00a0directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timing of talks for a Trump Tower project in Moscow.\u00a0The Mueller team\u2019s final report\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0the story was false.<\/strong><\/p>\n *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/barr-during-meeting-700x420.jpg?itok=C6_VU_0R\")
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