According to Bill Barr, the Justice Department is close to indicting Donald Trump for keeping government records after he left office.
Barr talked about the DOJ's investigation into Trump in an interview with Fox News. The core issues are whether the DOJ can make a case to prosecute Trump, and whether it should because he is a former president.
Barr argued for the strength of the DOJ's case but also said that Trump should not be held responsible.
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Will the government have the evidence to indict someone, including him? Barr made a statement.
"That's the first question, and I think they're getting very close to that point," said Barr, who resigned as attorney general shortly before Trump left office
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 a serious matter?
Barr hopes that the administration will not indict him because he doesn't want to see him indicted as a former president.
If anyone else would have been indicted, why not indict him?
The FBI's August 8 search of Trump's Florida resort yielded a lot of government records that may have been taken with him after he left office.
Trump has claimed he broadly declassified the records, and his lawyers were successful this week in their attempt to have an independent official review the documents to see if they should be returned to him.
One of Trump's most loyal aides, Barr fell out with the president when he wouldn't back his claims that the 2020 election had been rigged.
He wants the Republican Party to move on from Trump.
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