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In Fox Interview, Trump Admits Telling Aide to Move Boxes of Classified Documents

HeadlineJun 20, 2023

Meanwhile, Donald Trump appeared on Fox News Monday and talked about being arraigned on federal felony charges for mishandling classified documents. During the interview, Trump appeared to admit that he did not comply with requests to return classified documents. Trump was interviewed by Fox’s Bret Baier.

Donald Trump: “And in all fairness” —

Bret Baier: “Why not just hand them over then?”

Donald Trump: “Because I had boxes. I want 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.”

Bret Baier: “Yeah.”

Donald Trump: “I’ve been very, very busy.”

Bret Baier: “But according to the indictment, you then tell this aide to move to other locations, after telling your lawyers to say you had fully complied with the subpoena, when you hadn’t.”

Donald Trump: “Bret, before I send boxes over, I have to take all of my things out. These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things.”

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