Bill Barr tears into Donald Trump and says he will be indicted over Mar-a-Lago ... trends now
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said the investigation into classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate could pose a serious threat to Donald Trump.
In October, The Justice Department began investigating whether the former President violated three federal statutes when he brought back White House materials with him to Mar-A-Lago instead of turning them over to the National Archives as required.
Barr - who was once a loyal defender of Trump - said that the former President 'played games' with federal investigators, and maintained that prosecutors had 'very good evidence' against him.
'He had no claim to those documents, especially the classified documents. It belonged to the government,' Barr said on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday. 'I think he was jerking the government around.'
'The government is investigating the extent to which games were played and there was obstruction in keeping the documents from them. I think that's a serious potential case, I think they probably have some very good evidence there,' Barr continued.
Barr warns Trump faces more threat from classified docs case than over hush money
It comes even as Barr dismissed the indictment of Trump over his alleged involvement in the 2016 'hush money' scandal
It comes even as Barr dismissed the indictment of Trump over his alleged involvement in the 2016 'hush money' scandal as an 'abomination,' and 'the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power,' on Fox News last week.
Trump made history as the first ex-president in U.S. history to be indicted with charges of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
Barr argued how the legal theory behind the indictment was 'pathetically weak' and that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is 'going after the man, not a crime.'
'Obviously, we don't have the indictment, so there's a little bit of speculation involved, but based on the news reports, if they're accurate, this is an abomination,' Barr said on Fox News.
'It's the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power to bring a case that would not be brought against anyone else. They are going after the man, not a crime. And the legal theory, frankly, is pathetically weak,' he suggested.
'The legal theory is pathetically weak. The case is held together by chicken wire and paper clips and rubber bands. It's a lousy case. And it's a shameful episode in our history where this local prosecutor is trying to effect the political process by bringing this case,' Barr railed.
He delved into the legal arguments that will likely be made, noting how the case likely
