Trump issued a social media tirade against Barr earlier this week when the former attorney general said the GOP should choose someone else in the 2024 race.
—quickly recanting a real-time response in which he said if he did, he had the authority to do so.
"I've said all along that of the cases out there right now, the one I'd be most concerned about, if I were the president, is the Mar-a-Lago document case," Barr toldThen-President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General William Barr are seen in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Barr said in an interview on Thursday that Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents could bring the most legal peril.
"It's very clear that he had no business having those documents," the former attorney general added."He was given a long time to send them back and he was—they were subpoenaed. And if there's any games being played there, he's going to be very exposed." Trump's argument of"automatically" declassifying the classified documents when they were placed into boxes is not"gonna fly," Barr said.
On Thursday, the National Archives and Records Administration informed Trump that 16 records would be handed over to Smith, purportedly showing that the former president and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources who spoke with CNN.
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