Barr referenced spurious claims about election systems, stating at one point: “There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results.
He knows the results aren’t going to be overturned, but I guess he saw an opportunity to make money.”
And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”
According to The New York Times, much of the amount was raised within a week of the election.