Trump’s second arraignment: Watch how it happened
Donald Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr has slammed the former president’s “absurd” defence of his handling of classified documents after leaving office.
“It’s just as wacky as the legal doctrine they came up with for, you know, having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Mr Barr said that Mr Trump’s indictment on 37 federal criminal charges was “entirely of his own making” – but, despite this, he doesn’t “like the idea of a former president serving time in prison”.
Former Trump administration defence secretary Mark Esper also had harsh words for Mr Trump’s actions over the weekend, calling them “illegal and dangerous”.
While ex-Trump officials turn on their former boss, the 77-year-old is also losing legal support.
Attorney Jim Trusty pulled out of representing the former president in his $475m defamation lawsuit against CNN on Friday – days after he quit as Mr Trump’s lawyer in the classified documents case.
Voters may be growing sick of Mr Trump as well. In a new poll, voters were most likely to describe Donald Trump in one word: a “criminal”.
