Former Attorney General William P. Barr says the New York indictment against former President Donald Trump is flimsy and “opaque,” but he does think the investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago poses a problem for his former boss.
Mr. Barr, a former Trump ally, said the FBI raided Mr. Trump’s Florida estate after a lengthy back and forth over documents “which he had no claim to.”
Mr. Trump says his possession of documents has been overblown, that he did not commit a crime and that investigators are launching a political witch hunt to take down his 2024 campaign. “I think it depends on how sensitive the documents were, but also what evidence they have of obstruction and games-playing by the president and whether he directed people to lie or gave them information that was deceitful to pass onto the government,” Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Trusty, outlining a key argument, said the president is able to determine what’s personal and what’s presidential and that archivists were biased in going after Mr. Trump.
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