Wednesday 7 September 2022 08:02 PM Bill Barr says DOJ getting 'very close' to having the evidence to indict Trump ... trends now
Former Attorney General Bill Barr predicted the Department of Justice is 'very close' to having enough evidence to indict Donald Trump, though he said he hopes they will not take such action.
Barr said the DOJ is faced with two questions - whether it has the evidence to indict Trump and whether it should.
'I think they're getting very close to that, frankly,' Barr said on Fox News of the DOJ having the evidence for indictment.
He added: 'I think at the end of the day, there's another question that is do you indict a former president? What will that do to the country? What kind of precedent will that set- will the people really understand that this is not, you know, failing to return a library book that this was serious?'
Barr said he hopes DOJ will not indict Trump to avoiding igniting further tensions throughout the country.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr predicted the Department of Justice is 'very close' to having enough evidence to indict Donald Trump, though he said he hopes they will not take such action
'I hope that those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him because I don't want to see him indicted as a former president. But I also think there'll be under a lot of pressure to indict him, because one question is, look, if anyone else would have gotten indicted, why not indict him?'
Barr also said he disagrees with Trump appointee Judge Eileen Cannon's ruling which blocks the DOJ from viewing and appoints a special master to review the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago and said he hopes the government appeals the ruling.
'The problem I have with the special master is what she's done on what's called executive privilege documents. And she didn't address the
