Trump: I’m too busy to organize the boxes I brought to Mar-a-Lago

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I was very busy, as you saw, he explained.

The comments from Trump are an admission that he has not moved to meet the federal governments’ demands that he comply with their requests to hand over the documents. This is also how he has fully addressed the matter since he was indicted for his mishandling of those documents, which allegedly included classified material.

Upon leaving office, Trump dropped many files and documents from his time as president. NARA eventually demanded a full accounting of what was brought to Mar-a-Lago. And when it was eventually discovered that some of the boxes Trump had taken contained classified documents, the agency asked the Justice Department to look into the matter. The FBI later opened a criminal investigation, and the DOJ ultimately issued a subpoena for the records.

According to the special counsel’s lawsuit, Trump allegedly moved the materials around Mar-a-Lago to hide the full extent of the boxes he was keeping from the feds and even his own lawyers. Pressed by Baier, Trump did not deny that he told his lawyers to say he fully complied with the subpoena when he did not. Instead, he said again that he needed time to organize the boxes to get personal items such as golf shirts, clothes, pants, shoes.

The special counsel also said Trump openly discussed on two occasions the fact that some of the materials remained classified even though he handled them. In his interview with Fox News, Trump denied that, insisting that everything was declassified. He said he did not know if the materials he took contained military plans for a prospective strike on Iran, although he was reportedly on tape acknowledging that he was keeping a classified Pentagon document that details more details.

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