Former President Donald Trump’s attorney general until the last few months of his term, William Barr, made an appearance on Friday to defend the Department of Justice’s choice to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and take thousands of documents.

In an interview with Fox News, Barr stated, “I think the focus on this from the beginning was tonnes of sensitive information sitting in Mar-A-Lago.

People have said that this was unprecedented; nevertheless, it is also rare for a president to take all of this sensitive material and place it in a country club, okay? stated Barr.

How long will it take the government to attempt to recover that? Barr carried on. On that front, they also felt mislead. They “jawboned for a year, they were misled on the voluntary acts taken, They went and got a subpoena, but they were duped about it, the paper says.

How much longer must they wait now that it is becoming clear they were being pulled around by the evidence? Barr went on.

The former DOJ chief said as additional information surrounding the agency’s criminal investigation into the delivery of private information to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House was made available in court documents.

During their raid on Trump’s club last month, FBI agents discovered four dozen empty document folders marked “CLASSIFIED,” according to information from an earlier Friday newly disclosed court document. 43 of these files, according to the court document, were taken from Trump’s workplace.

The raid on August 8 occurred a few months after the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of data from Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, vacation home in January. FBI officers visited Mar-a-Lago in June to collect all further papers marked with a classified code.

According to a DOJ court brief, the FBI eventually “uncovered numerous sources of evidence” that suggested additional secret documents might still be located at Mar-a-Lago, which prompted them to obtain a search warrant for the building.

Barr claimed on Friday that the search warrant “indicates that they probably have pretty good evidence to have brought things to the current position, but that’s guessing.”

Barr also thought it “very doubtful” that Trump declassified the documents bought at Mar-a-Lago.

Barr asserted that if Trump actually did “stand over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and say, I hereby declassify everything in here, that would be such an abuse and that would demonstrate such recklessness that it’s almost worse than removing the documents” that it would be “almost worse than removing the documents.”

As Trump’s attorney general, Barr took the oath of office in February 2019. He oversaw the divisive public release of former special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report on Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election and conceivable cooperation with the Trump campaign. Critics accused him of misrepresenting the investigation’s conclusions when he released a four-page summary of the Mueller report weeks before the full report was made available to the public.

Barr recently broke with his boss by refuting his assertions that the 2020 election was rigged through widespread fraud less than a month after Trump lost to President Joe Biden. Even after he left office on January 20, 2021, Trump continued to insist that the election had been fixed to favour him.

Trump has recently requested that either he be recognised as the “rightful winner” or that a new election be held “quickly.”

Barr stated to The Associated Press that the DOJ has “not observed fraud on a magnitude that might have influenced a different outcome in the election” in an interview that was published on December 1, 2020.

Two weeks later, Trump made the departure of Barr public.