Donald Trump’s own former Attorney General Bill Barr sat down with CBS News this week and offered up an analysis of the scandal-ridden ex-president’s mountain of legal peril that was particularly damning for Barr’s old boss, as the ex-AG pointed to what he believes is the greatest legal threat posed against Trump as we speak — and if Barr’s assessment is correct, it seems that Donald Trump could be facing even more legal trouble than we were expecting.
There’s no denying that ex-President Trump is facing scandal and legal peril from every conceivable direction these days. Ranging from the recent historical criminal indictment in the infamous Manhattan hush money case, to the mounting election investigation in the state of Georgia, to the recent bombshell verdict in the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case, to the New York Attorney General’s civil tax fraud investigation, to the variety of probes being conducted against the former guy by Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith. Frankly, there’s no end in sight for Donald Trump.
But according to Barr, there is one particular criminal scandal that’s very likely to shake out as the most damning and legally threatening for Donald J. Trump in the end — the stolen document case.
“I’ve said all along that of the cases out there right now, the one I’d be most concerned about, if I were the president, is the Mar-a-Lago document case,” Trump’s own former head of the Justice Department told CBS News anchor Catherine Herridge.
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“It’s very clear that he had no business having those documents,” Barr went on to add. “He was given a long time to send them back … they were subpoenaed. And if there’s any games being played there, he’s going to be very exposed.”
The former AG touched on Donald’s defense claims that the documents and materials were somehow automatically declassified the moment he took them, but Barr says that excuse is not “gonna fly.”
University of New Haven political science practitioner Patricia Crouse spoke with Newsweek regarding Barr’s assessment of Trump’s legal woes and noted that the former AG is likely correct.
“The law says you cannot simply remove classified documents from the White House when you leave, nor can you declare that they became ‘automatically declassified when I took them,’ as Trump did on national television at his CNN Town Hall,” Crouse explained. “The DOJ can really just use his own words against him in this case.”
You can watch the interview from CBS News here.
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