Opinion: Donald Trump brought his legal problems on himself
Donald Trump picked William Barr as his second attorney general largely because Barr had criticized special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. Barr still agrees with Trump that the Russia probe was a “witch hunt.”
Like Trump’s claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, his retention of government records after he left the White House presents Republicans with a choice. They can risk the wrath of Trump’s supporters by acknowledging reality, or they can play it safe by embracing his delusions. Barr likewise has little patience for Trump’s assertion that he had “the absolute right to do whatever I want” with the thousands of presidential records he took when he left office, which included more than 300 marked as classified. “He had no right to those documents,” Barr said on “Face the Nation” this week. “He had no legal basis for keeping them.”
“The government tried for over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back, which was essential that they do, and he jerked them around,” Barr said. Trump remained recalcitrant even when he faced a federal subpoena seeking all the documents with classification markings stored at Mar-a-Lago.
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