Donald Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Friday that the FBI’s spectacular search of the former US president’s home seemed justified, and that authorities appeared to have “good” evidence of attempted obstruction on his part.
The words of Bill Barr, who went from supporting the former president to detractor, come after this police operation on August 8 at Donald Trump’s house in Florida, which caused a political storm and during which confidential documents were seized.
“For them to get to where we are today, they probably have good evidence,” Bill Barr said on Fox News.
‘Crazy’ behavior by Trump
“If they clearly have the president moving things, hiding things in his office and telling people to hide things from the government, they may be inclined to take this case” to court, he added.
“I think the driving force behind all of this from the beginning was the pile of classified information that was at Mar-a-Lago,” he said.
“People say it’s unprecedented,” he continued about the search. “Well, it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club,” she added scathingly.
But while he called Donald Trump’s behavior regarding the documents “insane” and “inexplicable,” Bill Barr said he hoped the department would not charge him, “since this is ‘a former president and given the state of the nation’. .
Donald Trump responded, in a message on his social network Truth Social. “Former Attorney General Bill Barr was fired long before I left the White House,” the former Republican president wrote.
Top secret documents kept by Trump
Vendredi, a judicial document du ministère de la Justice revealed that certain documents classés top secret saisis by the FBI at the domicile of Donald Trump in Floride avaient été decouverts dans son bureau, ce qui pourrait comforter les soupçons selon lesquels il a fait entreve à Justice.
The detailed list of what was seized during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago also shows that Donald Trump had kept more than 11,000 unclassified and state-related documents secret. He tells her that he has a right to keep them, but legally they go to the National Archives.
Among the texts seized during the police operation are 18 documents classified as “top secret”, 53 “secret” and 31 “confidential”. Among them, papers that were recovered from the personal office of Donald Trump.
Officers also found several dozen empty folders marked “classified” in the office, which may suggest sensitive documents were lost or destroyed.
Source: BFM TV
