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Trump is ‘toast’ if charges proven: former AG speaks

Former US Attorney General William Barr has defended Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37-count indictment against Donald Trump, saying if the allegations the former president wilfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true, then “he’s toast.”

“I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, … and I think the counts under the Espionage Act that he wilfully retained those documents are solid counts,” Barr, who served under Trump, told Fox News Sunday.

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