Former US attorney-general William Barr says Donald Trump is 'toast' if allegations that he wilfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true under Special Counsel Jack Smith's 37-count indictment against the former president.
Cars decked out with American flags and pro-Trump slogans on placards made the 130-kilometre trip, honking most of the way and meeting at a Palm Beach grocery store parking lot for a rally.
The indictment alleges that Mr Trump stored the documents in a haphazard manner at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, refused to give them back to the government, and tried to hide them from the FBI and even his own attorney after a grand jury issued him a subpoena demanding that he turn over all records bearing classified markings.
In the past, Mr Barr has been a fierce defender of Mr Trump, going so far as to appoint his own special counsel to probe whether the FBI improperly opened an investigation into Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign over possible ties to Russia based on flimsy evidence. "I go on the president's word that he said he did," US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told CNN on Sunday when asked if he had any evidence to back up Mr Trump's claim.
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