Former Attorney General Bill Barr said the U.S. has a “very strong” criminal case against Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents and said the former president has himself to blame.
“He had no right to those documents,” Barr, who served as U.S. attorney general under Trump, said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. “The government tried for over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back, which was essential that they do, and he jerked them around. And he had no legal basis for keeping them.”
Barr dismissed suggestions by Trump and his supporters that the Presidential Records Act gave him a right to take the documents to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after leaving the White House.
