“The opinion, I think, was wrong,” Bill Barr said on Fox News about the special master ruling. “I think the government should appeal it. It’s deeply flawed in a number of ways.”
“The opinion, I think, was wrong,” Barr told Martha MacCallum on Tuesday’sHe predicted the ruling would be successfully appealed but would nevertheless end up being nothing more than a “rain delay for a couple of innings.” Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, approved Trump’s request for a special master to scan the documents for both attorney-client and executive privilege, temporarily halting the Justice Department’s review of the documents and entering unprecedented legal territory.
. His lawyers successfully argued a special master was needed to weed out privileged material and personal items swept up in the seizure. But Barr said Trump’s argument over the documents’ contents effectively does not matter, as the issue instead resides with Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and whether he deceived the government over how many documents were kept at Mar-a-Lago.
“Government documents were taken, classified information was taken and not handled appropriately, and they’re looking into—and there’s some evidence that suggests—that they were deceived,” Barr said. “None of that really relates to the content of documents. It relates to the fact that there were documents there.”
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