Former US President Donald Trump, who is facing charges for his negligent handling of state secrets after leaving the White House, defended himself in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, saying he had been too “busy” to classify these documents. confidential.
In this unusually harsh-toned interview broadcast Monday night on The Conservative Channel, Donald Trump, 77, who will try to regain the presidency next year, said that after his swift departure from the White House in January 2021, his personal effects had been mixed with government documents.
“I didn’t want to put them back… yet”
“I for one took them out in a hurry, but people packed them up and we left. I had clothes inside, I had all kinds of personal items in them, a lot of things.” “I have every right to have these cards,” she said.
When asked by Fox News reporter Bret Baier why he didn’t turn over the documents at the behest of federal agents, Donald Trump replied: “Because I had boxes, I wanted to rummage through those boxes to get all my personal stuff out.” I didn’t want to put it back…yet,” he said.
“I was very busy, as you can see,” he added.
Donald Trump appeared a week ago before a federal judge in Miami to be officially notified of the 37 charges against him as part of the investigation opened after an FBI search of his Florida mansion last August.
The former Republican president is accused of endangering the security of the United States by storing confidential documents, including military plans or information about nuclear weapons, in a bathroom or storage room of his luxurious residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, instead of converting them in the National Archives.
Source: BFM TV
