Trump denies all wrongdoing in both investigations. It could be later in the summer or in the fall would be the earliest I would expect it," Barr said. "My guess is that, and this is just, I'm speculating, but I would think they'd want to do it before the end of the year. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago documents could come as soon as this summer. The former attorney general estimated that charging decisions in Smith's investigation related to Trump, his actions around Jan. 6 investigation is going to be "harder to establish a case," because it could run up against First Amendment issues and also, much of the case relies on proving intent, Barr said. They also suggested the former president's departure from the White House after the election was hastily conducted and staff "simply swept all documents from the president's desk and other areas into boxes" that were then moved to Florida. In a recent letter to Congress, Trump's lawyers said the Justice Department should "stand down" on the probe. "I don't think the idea that you know, he automatically - that they were somehow automatically declassified when they were put in the boxes. "I don't think that argument's gonna fly," Barr responded. Trump said in the town hall that he "took what I took, and it gets declassified." Barr also thinks Trump's claim in a recent CNN town hall that he was declassifying records as they left the White House isn't going to satisfy the special counsel.
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