Donald Trump\u2019s former Attorney General Bill Barr tore apart the one-term president\u2019s defence of having secret papers at his home during an appearance on Fox News.<\/p>\n
Mr Barr defended the FBI\u2019s raid of Mr Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate and said that his former boss had been \u201cjerking around\u201d the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-A-Lago,\u201d Mr Barr said on the right-wing news network.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople say this was unprecedented, well, it\u2019s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
His remarks came as the court documents revealed that agents found four dozen \u201cCLASSIFIED\u201d empty document files during their August search of the property, as well as dozens of secret and top secret papers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long does the government try to get that back?\u201d Added Mr Barr.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey jawboned for a year, they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken, they then went and got a subpoena, they were deceived on that, they feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe facts are starting to show they were being jerked around, so how long do they wait?\u201d<\/p>\n
The search came after the FBI went to Mar-a-Lago in June to collect classified documents, before returning several months later to take away more material.<\/p>\n
Mr Barr also rejected Mr Trump\u2019s claims that he declassified the documents taken from the White House to Florida as \u201chighly improbable.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that if Mr Trump had \u201cstood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them and said, I hereby declassify everything in here that would be such an abuse and that shows such recklessness that it\u2019s almost worse than taking the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
And he also blasted Mr Trump\u2019s lawsuit asking for a Special Master to go through the items seized by the FBI.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think the whole idea of a Special Master is a bit of a red herring… at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it\u2019s a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Barr was sworn in as AG in February 2019 but resigned his position after Mr Trump was beaten in the 2020 election by Mr Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Donald Trump\u2019s former Attorney General Bill Barr tore apart the one-term president\u2019s defence of having secret papers at his home during an appearance on Fox News. Mr Barr defended the FBI\u2019s raid of Mr Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate and said that his former boss had been \u201cjerking around\u201d the Justice Department. \u201cI think the driver on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n