2023-06-18 22:16:46
Former United States Attorney General William Barrwho led the Department of Justice during the presidency of Donald Trump (2017-2021), criticized the ex-president this Sunday for withholding classified documents leaving the White House. In his opinion, the accusation against him is “robust”.
In an interview with the CBS network, Barr distanced himself from most of the voices of the Republican Party who consider that the imputation of Trump for the documents found in his Florida mansion is a political persecution to prevent him from running in the 2024 elections. “He is an accomplished narcissist who consistently engages in reckless behavior that puts his collaborators, the conservative and Republican agenda, and the country at risk,” he declared. the former prosecutorwho he distanced himself from Trump when he did not admit his electoral defeat in 2021.
“Trump is a consummate narcissist who consistently engages in reckless behavior”
Barr believes the indictment against Trump is “robust” because most of the evidence comes from his own lawyers and believes that the former president has lied to the Department of Justice during the investigation. He recalled that the current government was asking Trump for a year to return the classified documents he had taken but refused to do so without presenting “any legal argument.”
National security
In addition, he has dismissed as “absurd” that the ex-president considers that these documents, among which there are papers related to national security, are personal documentation. But, despite everything, the former prosecutor has stated that having a former president of the United States sentenced to prison is something that he would not like to see.
Donald Trump, favorite to get the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential electionswas prosecuted on Tuesday for 37 crimes, including illegal retention of government secrets, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, for the case of the documents.
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According to the indictment, the ex-president would have illegally taken in 2021, when he left the Presidency, hundreds of classified documents, including nuclear secrets, which he stored in various parts of his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, mansion, including a bedroom, a ballroom, a bathroom and a shower.
Most Republican leaders including his primary contenders, have come to the defense of Trump, who has denounced a “Witch hunt” against him. The President’s Government Joe Biden, who is running for re-election in 2024has ensured that the investigation of the Department of Justice is totally independent.
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