Trump AG Bill Barr: Prosecutors Likely Have ‘Very Good Evidence’ Trump Obstructed Justice

Former Trump Attorney General William Barr said over the weekend that he believes that federal prosecutors likely have “very good evidence” that the former president committed obstruction of justice in the criminal investigation into his handling of classified material.

Barr made the remarks on Easter Sunday during an interview on ABC News’ “This Week” while discussing the four criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump.

Barr said that he believes that the Manhattan case, where Trump was just indicted on 34 felony counts, was incredibly weak and that it was a “clear example” of weaponizing the justice system for political gain.

Barr said that he believes that Democrats are trying to use the investigations to “get into the middle of the Republican primary process and turn it into a circus.”

“And I think, ultimately, the savvy Democratic strategists know this is going to help Trump, and they want him to be the nominee because he is the weakest of the Republican candidates, the most likely to lose again to Biden,” Barr warned.

Barr said that Trump should be “most concerned about the document case in Mar-a-Lago because” he believes that prosecutors have serious evidence that Trump committed obstruction of justice as investigators tried to recover U.S. government records and classified materials from the former president.

The raid on Mar-a-Lago was “taken after a long period, about a year-and-a-half of trying to get the documents from him, which he had no claim to,” Barr said. “He had no claim to those documents, especially the classified documents. They belonged to the government. And so, I think he was jerking the government around. And they subpoenaed it. And they tried to jawbone him into delivering documents.”

“But the government is investigating the extent to which games were played and there was obstruction in keeping documents from them,” he added. “And I think that’s a serious potential case. I think they probably have some very good evidence there.”

Barr said that there is “a very good chance” that Trump will be criminally indicted in the case.

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‘Boy Meets Congress’: Ben Savage’s Former Castmates Weigh In On His Campaign

Actor Ben Savage has announced a run for Congress in California — and now his former “Boy Meets World” cast mates have revealed what they think about his political future.

During last Wednesday’s episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast, actors Will Friedle, Rider Strong, and Danielle Fishel began with a discussion about an episode of the 90s hit in which Cory Mathews (Savage’s character) ran for class president. That discussion quickly dovetailed into the most recent example of life imitating art — and Savage’s congressional campaign.

 

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Fishel, who played Savage’s onscreen love interest Topanga Lawrence, moderated the discussion and posed the question first to Friedle, who had played the role of Savage’s older brother Eric.

“Will, what would you like to say about Ben Savage running for Congress?” she asked.

Friedle made it clear that it wasn’t a topic up for discussion — and not for reasons having anything to do with Savage.

“I will say what I say any time anybody asks me to publicly speak about politics, which is I do not publicly speak about politics. It’s just the way I was raised; you don’t talk about politics, you don’t talk about your sex life, you don’t talk about how much money you make, you just don’t,” Friedle explained. “I do all my talking in the voting booth and I have since I was 18. And that is my answer.”

Strong also declined to make an endorsement, saying that while he understood the public’s fascination, he wasn’t ready to endorse a political candidate based on the fact that they worked together as teens. He went on to say that, unless things had changed, they might not agree on the issues anyway.

“When we were younger, Ben and I basically didn’t agree on much politically. We often found ourselves on exact opposite sides of almost every issue. Now, the important thing to state is that we were teenagers and it was 1993 through 2000, so maybe a lot has changed,” he said, adding, “I’m not going to endorse Ben simply because I had the same job as him when I was a teenager.”

Fishel pointed out that she couldn’t vote for Savage even if she wanted to because she lived in a different district. That said, she added, “I think it is very important to figure out what our individual priorities are … and you look for those things that mean the most to you, and try to find a leader that aligns with your values as closely as possible and then you support that person.”

Savage, if elected, would replace Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) — who has, in turn, announced his bid for retiring Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat.

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