Donald Trump lashed out at Bill Barr after the former attorney general said the Department of Justice was justified in searching Mar-a-Lago for classified documents.
“Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory.’ He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media site, Truth Social. “Barr never fought the way he should have for Election Integrity, and so much else. He started off OK as A.G., but faded fast – Didn’t have courage or stamina. People like that will never Make America Great Again!”
On Friday, Barr defended the Justice Department during an interview on Fox News. The former attorney general told the conservative outlet that the DOJ likely had ‘pretty good evidence’ before searching Mar-a-Lago.
Barr also dismissed Trump’s claim that he declassified the documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago during the raid.
“I, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that, ‘I declassified everything,’ because, frankly, I think it is highly improbable,” Barr said. “And, second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and then said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here’ — that would be such an abuse and such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”
The FBI retrieved more than 100 classified documents during the search at Mar-a-Lago. The property receipt noted that the government seized 11 sets of classified documents with “confidential,” “secret” and “top secret” classification markings. The DOJ is investigating possible crimes related to the removal of those highly classified documents from the White House when Trump left office.
