Conflicting accounts on Barr mulling early exit from Justice Department

The past 24 hours have been filled with conflicting claims about whether Attorney General William Barr is planning an early exit from the Justice Department.

The New York Times first reported Barr was telling associates that he was contemplating a departure from his role in the Trump administration before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. One source said Barr was thinking about exiting last week after he announced the DOJ had not found “fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”