Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Sunday that the Department of Justice’s investigation of Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents poses a real threat to the former president because the DOJ could have “very good evidence” he possibly obstructed justice.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith last year to lead the DOJ investigations into Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
On Sunday, Barr said the classified documents probe is the one Trump should “be most concerned about.”
“He had no claim to those documents, especially the classified documents. They belonged to the government. And so, I think he was jerking the government around. And they subpoenaed it. And they tried to jawbone him into delivering documents,” Barr said on ABC’s “This Week. “The government is investigating the extent to which games were played and there was obstruction in keeping documents from them. And I think that’s a serious potential case. I think they probably have some very good evidence there.”
Federal agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in August after learning from at least one person that classified documents were still at the private club, according to CNN. This was after a grand jury subpoena was issued in June and attorneys for the former president claimed they turned over all the documents.
