Former President Donald Trump late Monday defended his handling of sensitive documents at his Florida estate by claiming he was “very busy” when the National Archives and Records Administration demanded papers mingled with golf clothes and personal items.
He also repeated his belief that persons seeking the documents might have planted things in his boxes.
“Like every other president, I take things out. And in my case, I took it out pretty much in a hurry. But people packed it up, and we left. I had clothing in there, I had all sorts of personal items in there — much, much stuff,” he said. “I want[ed] to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet. And I was very busy as you’ve sort of seen.”
Pressed on whether he resisted a subpoena for the documents instead of complying, Mr. Trump repeated that he had to go through his personal things out of his boxes. “That was a massive amount of papers and everything else, talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not. That was not a document. I didn’t have any document per se,” Mr. Trump said. “There was nothing to declassify, these were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”
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