FBI Filing: Aide Begged Trump To Return Stolen Docs

Axios reports:

An associate of former President Trump told the FBI of advising Trump to return documents the National Archives was seeking nearly a year before agents searched his Mar-a-Lago home, according to newly unsealed filings. The summary of the unnamed associate’s FBI interview was among a trove of documents that the judge handling Trump’s classified documents case released with redactions on Monday.

The associate, identified in the filings only as “person 16,” told the FBI that they had said to Trump while at Mar-a-Lago in Florida: “Whatever you have, give everything back. Let them come here and get everything. Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will.” The associate claimed Trump gave a “weird ‘you’re the man’ type of response” and was left with the impression that the former president would return the documents.

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An associate told the FBI they urged Trump to return docs to the National Archives nearly a year before the search on Mar-a-Lago, per newly unsealed documents that reveal the code name for the investigation was “Plasmic Echo” https://t.co/aRvXMLORFb

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