Barr defended the Justice Department's decision to seek a search warrant, saying facts showed the government was being 'jerked around' by the former president.
search at Mar-a-Lago could have been avoided, saying that he believed that the raid was likely"reasonable" from the perspective of federal investigators.
and lambasting federal authorities for taking the unprecedented action of conducting a search warrant at a former president's home. Barr noted that all the documents taken, even if they are subject to executive privilege, either belong to the government or are seizable under the FBI's search warrant because"they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held."
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