A court motion submitted by Donald Trump’s legal team Monday concerning the FBI raid on his Florida resort to recover unlawfully retained official government documents may have inadvertently implied an admission of guilt. This raises the question of what, exactly, the former president may have been planning to do with those documents.
Trump’s lawyers argue some of the documents recovered by the FBI could be protected by executive privilege. However, such a case would confirm that he did indeed collect classified information that he was not authorized to keep following the end of his presidential term. This has invited speculation as to Trump’s overall intentions.