Trump indictment is ‘very, very damning,’ his former attorney general says

After a 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed Friday, Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr said there is trouble ahead for the 2024 Republican presidential hopeful.

“If even half of it is true, then he’s toast,” Barr told “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous.”

The indictment revealed allegations that the former president willfully retained hundreds of classified government records at his Florida home and conspired to prevent their return to U.S. officials.

The charging document, which was made public a day after a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Miami voted to indict Trump, said that the records contained information about defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. and foreign countries, U.S. nuclear programs, and “potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack.”

Trump stored these classified materials in cardboard boxes in a ballroom, a bathroom, a shower, and office space, along with his bedroom and a storage room at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida., according to the indictment.

Barr said the way Trump stored the documents at Mar-a-Lago would be enough to make anyone who cares about national security stomachs’ churn.

“He is not a victim here,” Barr said. “He was totally wrong that he had the right to have those documents. Those documents are among the most sensitive secrets the country has.”

Many Republicans, including presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, have rallied around Trump in the wake of the indictment.

Ramaswamy said he would pardon Trump if elected, even before the details of the indictment were released. He told CNN’s…