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William Barr, who was Former President Donald Trump’s attorney general until the final months of his administration, appeared Friday to defend the Department of Justice’s decision to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and seize thousands of records.
“I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-A-Lago,” Barr said in a Fox News interview.
“People say this was unprecedented, well, it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?” Barr said.
“How long is the government try to get that back?” Barr went on. “They jawboned for a year, they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken, they then went and got a subpoena, they were deceived on that, they feel.”
Attorney General William Barr speaks in Washington, December 10, 2019.
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“The facts are starting to show they were being jerked around, so how long do they wait?” Barr added.
The remarks from the former head of the DOJ came as court documents revealed more information about the agency’s criminal investigation into the shipment of classified government records to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.
FBI agents found four dozen empty document folders marked “CLASSIFIED” during their raid last month of Trump’s club, a newly unsealed court file revealed earlier Friday. Forty-three of those folders were collected from Trump’s office, the court filing said.
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