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Former\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>-picked Attorney General\u00a0Bill Barr<\/strong>\u00a0spoke candidly on Sunday about Trump\u2019s 2024 run, his verbal attacks on the Manhattan judge, and his legal cases, saying the former president should be \u201cmost concerned about the documents case at Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe had no claim to those documents\u2013especially the classified documents. They belong to the government. I think he was jerking the government around,\u201d Barr said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d about the federal case into the classified documents found at Trump\u2019s Florida estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump \u201cunfortunately has a penchant for engaging in reckless and self-destructive behavior that brings these kinds of things on him. In many respects, he’s his own worst enemy,\u201d Barr added. \u201cHe\u2019s dug himself a hole on the documents [case]…It doesn\u2019t surprise me that he has all these legal problems. He was warned about them before he left office.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Barr also criticized how Trump attacked Judge\u00a0Juan Merchan.<\/strong> After the former president was charged with 34 felonies in the hush-money case, he called Merchan a \u201cTrump-hating judge, with a Trump-hating wife and family,<\/a> whose daughter worked for\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/strong> and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign\u2014and a lot of it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it is appropriate or wise.\u00a0The president notoriously lacks self-control and he frequently gets himself into trouble<\/a>,\u201d Barr said about Trump name-calling Judge Merchan. Barr was, however, critical of the Manhattan case, saying that he thought it lacked merit. \u201cI think it is transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish a political end. I think it is an unjust case. That\u2019s not to say that every legal challenge that the president faces is unjustified. But this one especially is,\u201d Barr said.<\/p>\n The former AG was equally critical of Trump\u2019s 2024 presidential run. Barr said that while his base will likely rally around Trump as the criminal investigations are ongoing because they view this as \u201cpersecution,\u201d Barr thinks that Trump\u2019s legal woes will hinder him in the actual election:\u00a0\u201cAs far as the general election is concerned, it will gravely weaken Trump. He’s already, I think, a weak candidate that would lose, but I think this sort of assures it.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Perhaps demonstrating the \u201cself-destructive behavior\u201d that Barr was describing, Trump wrote a rambly, all-caps holiday message on Truth Social: \u201cHAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING THOSE THAT DREAM ENDLESSLY OF DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DREAMING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, THOSE THAT ARE SO INCOMPETENT THEY DON’T REALIZE THAT HAVING A BORDER AND POWERFUL WALL IS A GOOD THING, & HAVING VOTER I.D., ALL PAPER BALLOTS, & SAME DAY VOTING WILL QUICKLY END MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD, & TO ALL OF THOSE WEAK & PATHETIC RINOS [Republicans in Name Only], RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, SOCIALISTS MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS WHO ARE KILLING OUR NATION, REMEMBER, WE WILL BE BACK!”<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Easter message from Trump seems like the perfect follow-up to last year\u2019s, in which he lambasted New York Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James<\/strong>, who was\u00a0investigating the Trump Organization\u2019s finances<\/a>: \u201cHappy Easter to\u00a0failed gubernatorial candidate and racist<\/a>\u00a0Attorney General Letitia James. May she remain healthy despite the fact that she will continue to drive business out of New York while at the same time keeping crime, death, and destruction in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTwitter content<\/h4>\n
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