"Didn't want to give the boxes back"

[Novara]

F.B.I. Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/trump-cipollone-philbin-interviews-fbi.html

(or paywall-free: https://archive.ph/fueo0)

snip............

Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, the White House counsel and his deputy under President Donald J. Trump, were interviewed by the F.B.I. in connection with boxes of sensitive documents that were stored at Mr. Trump’s residence in Florida after he left office, three people familiar with the matter said.

snip.............

Mr. Philbin tried to help the National Archives retrieve the material, two of the people familiar with the discussions said. But the former president repeatedly resisted entreaties from his advisers.

“It’s not theirs, it’s mine,” several advisers say Mr. Trump told them.

snip............

At that point, at least one Trump lawyer signed a statement saying material with the classified markings had been returned, according to four people familiar with the document. But officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at Mar-a-Lago and saw something that alarmed them. They also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said.

More in the link.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. OK, then court order or not, subpoena or not,

why did the FBI gain access to Mar-A-Lago?

Couldn't this have been one more constitutional crisis?

[ornotna]

3. Um, top secret documents maybe?

Just a guess.

[EndlessWire]

5. The National Archives knew he had them.

They were doing their job, which Trump obstructed.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. My question is why didn't he keep obstructing?

[gratuitous]

2. Thieves don't like giving back their swag

That's why they steal in the first place.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Some of the docs was insurance against indictment.

You come after me, I have top secret docs I will make public.

Things that will compromise the US or make it look bad.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Donnie Dimwit, "Mine! Mine! Mine!"