https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/09/02/barr-says-mar-a-lago-raid-justified-after-trump-jerked-around-feds/?sh=73af7787f3f1
TOPLINE Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday afternoon offered perhaps the most scathing public criticism a prominent Republican has given about former President Donald Trump's decision to bring a trove of government documents to Mar-A-Lago after the end of his term, suggesting federal authorities were left with little choice but to raid the property after Trump "jerked around" investigators.
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Barr, who served as attorney general for almost two years under Trump, dismissed GOP criticism of the raid of a former president's home as "unprecedented," saying "it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club."
The former attorney general said Justice Department officials may have felt they needed to carry out the raid after reportedly being tipped off that Trump kept some highly classified documents after receiving a subpoena earlier this year asking him to turn over sensitive records.