Barr Predicts the DOJ Is ‘Getting Very Close’ to Issuing an Indict in Trump Investigation

Indictments could be coming in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to former Attorney General William Barr.

Barr appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to discuss the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago and its investigation.

Co-host Dana Perino asked, “Do you have a view on how it ends?”

“As I’ve said all along, there are two questions,” Barr responded. “Will the government be able to make out a technical case, will they have evidence, by which, that they could indict somebody on, including him?”

He continued, “That’s the first question, and I think they are getting very close to that point, frankly.”

Barr went on to share the second question, “Do you indict a former president? What will that do to the country? What kind of precedent will it set? Will the people really understand that this is not failing to return a library book? That this was serious.”

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While the two-time attorney general made clear that “there is no scenario legally under which the president gets to keep the government documents, whether its classified or unclassified,” he poured cold water on the idea of prosecuting Trump.

“You have to worry about those things, and I hope that those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him, because I don’t want to see him indicted. He’s a former president,” Barr said.

He added, “But I also think they will be under a lot of pressure to indict him because…if anyone else would’ve gotten indicted, why not indict him?”