Trump and Barr had 'contentious' White House meeting this week, source says - CNN

He hasn't looked (for fraud in the Georgia election)," Trump said of Barr and his administration's Justice Department.

The Justice Department declined to comment Thursday on the Trump-Barr relationship.

But on Tuesday, hours after the attorney general's comments to The Associated Press, a spokesman seemed to try and claw back the damage, issuing a statement claiming the department had not concluded its election fraud investigation and therefore not "announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election."

"The department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible," said the Justice Department spokesperson who did not speak on the record.

ABC News first reported the tense White House meeting.

Though White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday she was unaware if Trump and Barr met when he was at the White House on Tuesday, the source described the meeting as contentious but said the President was not screaming at Barr.

Barr's comments to the AP represented the latest official rebuke from Republicans of the President's claims of widespread fraud in his loss to Joe Biden.

"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," Barr said.

Barr, who prior to the election had echoed Trump's claims that mail-in voting wasn't secure, said both the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have looked into claims of fraud and come up empty.

Two attorneys working for Trump swiftly rejected Barr's assessment on Tuesday, repeating their claim that they have "ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states," which they say the attorney general isn't privy to.

Barr's "opinion appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud," attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in a statement.

The lawyers have so far not shown any evidence to back up their claims, which have been rejected by multiple courts in states across the country, and their efforts will soon hit a wall as a number of states -- including the key states of Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania -- have certified or are about to certify their results.