The Justice Department has a legitimate basis for indicting Trump over the classified documents allegedly taken to Mar-a-Lago, former Attorney General Bill Barr said.
announced a special counsel to oversee the federal criminal investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and handling of classified documents.that he thinks the DOJ has enough evidence to indict the former president when it comes to the Mar-a-Lago documents probe.
"Given what's gone on, I think they probably have the evidence that would check the box," he said. "They have the case."Barr said a president should be indicted if they commit a crime, "especially a serious crime," he said. “If the Department of Justice can show that these were indeed very sensitive documents, which I think they probably were, and also show that the president consciously was involved in misleading the department, deceiving the government, and playing games after he had received the subpoena for the documents, those are serious charges,” Barr said in the interview.
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