From WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM
Legal peril from Manhattan could be the least of former President Donald Trump’s worries, his former Attorney General Bill Barr suggested Sunday.
Barr contended that if he was Trump’s lawyer, he would be most concerned about special counsel Jack Smith’s inquiry of classified documents discovered at his Mar-a-Lago estate and predicted there’s a “very good chance” his onetime boss will be indicted over it.
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“I’d be most concerned about the document case in Mar-a-Lago,” Barr told ABC’s This Week. “He had no claim to those documents, especially the classified documents. They belong to the government. And so I think he was jerking the government around, and they subpoenaed it, and they tried to jawbone them into delivering the documents.”
“The government is investigating the extent to which games were played, and there was obstruction and keeping the documents from them. And I think that’s a serious potential case. I think they probably have some very good evidence there,” he added.
Smith has been spearheading both the Justice Department’s investigation into the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and the department’s inquiry into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Earlier this month, reports emerged that Secret Service agents were set to testify before the inquiry. Last month, a federal appeals court also tossed out Trump’s bid to block Smith’s review from gaining access to material from one of his lawyers…. (Read more)
