Former attorney general Bill Barr described Trump's federal indictment as 'very, very damning' in a Fox News interview Sunday morning. 'If even half of it is true, he's toast,' Barr said.
Barr has made of the former president. The 49-page report, unsealed on Thursday, charges Trump with illegally possessing sensitive government documents and refusing to return them.
“I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly,” Barr. “If even half of it is true, he’s toast.” Barr added that he felt the 31 counts that fell under a section of the Espionage Act were “solid counts.” Barr’s comments Saturday contrast with his strident criticism of Trump’s indictment in March in New York on charges relating to hush money payments to adult film starthe New York indictment an “abomination” and “the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power,” and described the legal theory underlying the indictment as “pathetically weak…held together with chicken wire, paper clips and rubber bands.
The irony of Barr’s comments this morning is that, as attorney general, he helped pour gasoline on the fire of Trump’s persecution complex and fed broader perceptions that Democrats had politicized the criminal legal system.
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