Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he didn’t “want to hand over” boxes of classified government documents despite getting a subpoena because he hoped to keep personal items that he believed belong to him.
Doubling down on his “my boxes” defense, Trump admitted in an interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier that he intentionally defied the grand jury subpoena so he could rummage through the boxes that he first took to his Mar-a-Lago estate more than 1½ years earlier.
“I had boxes. I want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out,” Trump said. “I don’t want to hand that over to (federal officials) yet.”
