Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday the indictment against his former boss Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents is “entirely of his own making” and “not the result …
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday the indictment against his former boss Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents is “entirely of his own making.”The former president was arraigned and pleaded not guilty last week on 37 counts for having unlawfully withheld sensitive national defense information and potential US military strike plans.But Barr, who also served as attorney general under former President H.W.
The decision to retain the documents, Barr added, “was an act of self-assertion merely to gratify his ego.”and other Republicans that under the Presidential Records Act the documents could be kept, pointing out that presidents may only hold onto private documents unrelated to their official duties. However, Barr noted, the documents Trump held onto were not private and he had no authority to relabel them as such. Instead, he obstructed justice, “stymied the government for a year” and took no steps to declassify them.
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