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Ex-AG Barr says DOJ likely has enough evidence to ‘legitimately’ indict Trump

Former Attorney General William P. Barr said he believes the Justice Department likely has enough evidence to “legitimately” charge former President Donald Trump with a crime stemming from his storage of White House documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

“I personally think that they probably have a basis for legitimately indicting the president,” Mr. Barr said in an interview with PBS that aired over the weekend.

Mr. Barr said if the Justice Department proves that some the thousands of materials sent to Mar-a-Lago at the end of Mr. Trump’s term were “sensitive documents” and that the former president ignored and misled investigators, then it’s likely that Mr.