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The Department of Justice would not have executed a search warrant Mar-a-Lago unless they had already built a solid case that former President Donald Trump had broken laws related to classified information and the handling of national security secrets, former Attorney General Bill Barr speculated on Friday.
In an interview with Fox News, Barr pushed back on the argument that last month’s raid on Trump’s Florida resort crossed a line and that there were alternative means for the government to recover top-secret information being kept there.
The Aug. 8 search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago came after federal investigators determined that, contrary to assertions made by Trump’s lawyers, the former president had held on to classified government documents that could, among other things, expose intelligence assets abroad.
“I personally think, for them to have taken things to the current point, they probably have pretty good evidence, but that’s speculation,” Barr said.
