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LOL. Barr: "it's almost worse than taking the documents"
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug. 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as "classified," according to court records that were unsealed on Friday. The unsealing by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in West Palm Beach came one day after she heard oral arguments by Trump's attorneys and the Justice Department's top two counterintelligence prosecutors over whether she should appoint a special master to conduct a privilege review of the seized materials at Trump's request.
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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who was appointed by Trump, questioned the usefulness of such an appointment.
"I think at this stage, since they've (FBI) already gone through the documents I think it's a waste of time" to have a special master, Barr said in an interview on Fox News. Barr, who left the post in late December 2020, defied Trump by not backing his false claims that the presidential election that year had been stolen from him. In the interview, Barr added that he saw no "legitimate reason" for Trump having documents at his Florida estate if they were classified.
He added, "I frankly am skeptical of this claim (by Trump) that 'I declassified everything.' Because frankly I think it's highly improbable and second, if he sort of stood over scores of boxes not really knowing what was in them and said 'I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse, show such recklessness that it's almost worse than taking the documents."
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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who was appointed by Trump, questioned the usefulness of such an appointment.
"I think at this stage, since they've (FBI) already gone through the documents I think it's a waste of time" to have a special master, Barr said in an interview on Fox News. Barr, who left the post in late December 2020, defied Trump by not backing his false claims that the presidential election that year had been stolen from him. In the interview, Barr added that he saw no "legitimate reason" for Trump having documents at his Florida estate if they were classified.
He added, "I frankly am skeptical of this claim (by Trump) that 'I declassified everything.' Because frankly I think it's highly improbable and second, if he sort of stood over scores of boxes not really knowing what was in them and said 'I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse, show such recklessness that it's almost worse than taking the documents."
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