Excerpt taken from Sarah Fortinsky The Hill:
“Over time, people will see that this is not a case of the Department of Justice conducting a witch hunt,” Barr said in an interview on CBS on Tuesday. “In fact, they approached this very delicately and with deference to the president, and this would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents. But he jerked them around for a year and a half.”
As the saying goes, I'm not a Lawyer nor do I play one of TV but one of the main tenets of the Law is no one is above it so just returning the documents really should not ensure this went nowhere Trump being a former President or not.
Bill Barr thinks we're all idiots with his usual condescending tone. Providing people like Bill Barr a major platform is maddening, frustrating and exhausting.