Bill Barr Warns Donald Trump Should Be Most Concerned About The Classified Documents Case – Vanity Fair

FormerDonald Trump-picked Attorney GeneralBill Barrspoke candidly on Sunday about Trumps 2024 run, his verbal attacks on the Manhattan judge, and his legal cases, saying the former president should be most concerned about the documents case at Mar-a-Lago.

He had no claim to those documentsespecially the classified documents. They belong to the government. I think he was jerking the government around, Barr said on ABCs This Week about the federal case into the classified documents found at Trumps Florida estate.

Trump unfortunately has a penchant for engaging in reckless and self-destructive behavior that brings these kinds of things on him. In many respects, he's his own worst enemy, Barr added. Hes dug himself a hole on the documents [case]...It doesnt surprise me that he has all these legal problems. He was warned about them before he left office.

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Barr also criticized how Trump attacked JudgeJuan Merchan. After the former president was charged with 34 felonies in the hush-money case, he called Merchan a Trump-hating judge, with a Trump-hating wife and family, whose daughter worked forKamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaignand a lot of it.

I dont think it is appropriate or wise.The president notoriously lacks self-control and he frequently gets himself into trouble, Barr said about Trump name-calling Judge Merchan. Barr was, however, critical of the Manhattan case, saying that he thought it lacked merit. I think it is transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish a political end. I think it is an unjust case. Thats not to say that every legal challenge that the president faces is unjustified. But this one especially is, Barr said.

The former AG was equally critical of Trumps 2024 presidential run. Barr said that while his base will likely rally around Trump as the criminal investigations are ongoing because they view this as persecution, Barr thinks that Trumps legal woes will hinder him in the actual election:As far as the general election is concerned, it will gravely weaken Trump. He's already, I think, a weak candidate that would lose, but I think this sort of assures it.

Perhaps demonstrating the self-destructive behavior that Barr was describing, Trump wrote a rambly, all-caps holiday message on Truth Social: HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING THOSE THAT DREAM ENDLESSLY OF DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DREAMING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, THOSE THAT ARE SO INCOMPETENT THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT HAVING A BORDER AND POWERFUL WALL IS A GOOD THING, & HAVING VOTER I.D., ALL PAPER BALLOTS, & SAME DAY VOTING WILL QUICKLY END MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD, & TO ALL OF THOSE WEAK & PATHETIC RINOS [Republicans in Name Only], RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, SOCIALISTS MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS WHO ARE KILLING OUR NATION, REMEMBER, WE WILL BE BACK!"

This years Easter message from Trump seems like the perfect follow-up to last years, in which he lambasted New York Attorney GeneralLetitia James, who wasinvestigating the Trump Organizations finances: Happy Easter tofailed gubernatorial candidate and racistAttorney General Letitia James. May she remain healthy despite the fact that she will continue to drive business out of New York while at the same time keeping crime, death, and destruction in New York.

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