​Former Attorney General Bill Barr has said he believes the Justice Department is “getting very close” to gathering the evidence it needs to indict former President Donald Trump for improperly keeping classified documents at his Florida home.

Barr, who said last week that he knew of “no legitimate reason” for the 45th president to store sensitive material at Mar-a-Lago, told Fox News Wednesday that prosecutors must decide whether they will be able to “make a technical case” against Trump and if they have the evidence to indict.

“That’s the first question, and I think they’re getting very close to that point, frankly,” Barr said.

The second question, the ex-AG went on, is fraught with political risk: “Do you indict a former president?”

“What will that do to the country? What kind of precedent will that set? Will the people really understand that this is not, you know, failing to return a library book, that this was serious?” wondered Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general between January 2019 and December 2020.