2023-06-20 01:07:06
UNITED STATES
Trump says he’s been too ‘busy’ to sort through state secrets
The former American president explained Monday on Fox News on the affair of the archives of the White House which earned him to be charged by federal justice.
Updated20 June 2023, 03:07
Image d’archive de Donald et Melania Trump.
Former US President Donald Trump, facing charges over his careless handling of state secrets following leaving the White House, defended himself in a Fox News interview on Sunday, saying he had been too “busy” to sort through these confidential documents.
In this unusually harshly-toned interview aired Monday night on the conservative channel, Donald Trump, 77, who will try to win back the presidency next year, said that upon his rapid departure from the White House in January 2021, his personal effects had been mixed with government documents.
“I for one rushed them out, but people packed them up and we left. I had clothes in it, I had all kinds of personal items in it – lots of stuff”. “I have every right to have these boxes,” he said.
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When asked by Fox News reporter Bret Baier why he didn’t just 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 take out all my personal belongings. I didn’t want to put them back… yet,” he said. “I was very busy, as you might see,” he added.
Donald Trump appeared a week ago before a federal judge in Miami to be officially notified of the 37 charges once morest him as part of the investigation opened following an FBI search of his Florida mansion last August.
The former Republican president is accused of endangering the security of the United States by keeping confidential documents, including military plans or information on nuclear weapons, in a bathroom or storage room of his luxury residence in Mar- a-Lago, Florida, instead of turning them over to the National Archives.
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