Former AG Bill Barr said today the facts surrounding the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home show that the DOJ was being “jerked around” by the former president as the Feds sought to obtain classified government records.
Barr's scathing comments on Friday, bolstered by his expertise as the former attorney general, come as more details surface about the nature of the recovered records. | Matt McClain/Getty ImagesFormer attorney general Bill Barr on Friday said the facts surrounding the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence are beginning to show that the Department of Justice was being “jerked around” by the former president as the Feds sought to obtain classified government records.
An independent review of the material could ”give the American people greater confidence in the integrity of the process,” Kise said. Barr called the “whole idea of a special master a bit of a red herring” and a “waste of time.” He said the only documents his legal team may want to insulate the government from are those related to his “private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers.” He added that there doesn’t “appear to be much of this material.”
He called Trump’s withholding of documents “foolish” and “inexplicable,” while raising doubts that the Department of Justice will move forward with charges for retention of classified material alone.
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