Former Attorney General William P. Barr says former President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents is 'indefensible,' but he doesn't think his ex-boss should be imprisoned if he is convicted on federal charges.
“I don’t like the idea of a former president serving time in prison,” Mr. Barr, who led the Justice Department under Mr.faces more than 30 criminal counts in the indictment that was handed up this month by a grand jury in Miami. It alleges he unlawfully stored classified documents related to nuclear and military secrets, among other papers, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and then obstructed efforts to return them to the National Archives.
says he had declassified the documents when he was president, though the indictment presents evidence the ex-president thought it was too late to declassify some of the papers he possessed.says a series of legal probes against him are designed to thwart his political ambitions. He is fundraising off the allegations and using them as a foil to broaden his appeal on the 2024 campaign trail.
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