Former President Donald Trump last month demanded the return of "my documents" and "my boxes" — even asking his lawyers if they could reclaim them from the federal government — after they informed him that he would soon be indicted, a source with direct knowledge of the matter and two other people briefed on it told Rolling Stone.
The request came in one of several similar conversations the former president has had in recent months, the sources said. In another exchange, Trump asserted that those materials belong to "me" and claimed that it was "illegal" for him to no longer have access to the documents seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last August. He has also asked about what other legal tactics or court filings his team could employ to get them back that they may not have thought of.
