NY Times reporting via Raw Story
Trump plotted to trade Mar-a-Lago files for 'sensitive documents' about his 2016 campaign Russia ties
According to new reporting from the New York Times, Donald Trump told aides he wanted to make a deal with the National Archives to return the documents and files he whisked away to his Mar-a-Lago resort in exchange for "sensitive" documents he believes prove his 2016 campaign did not conspire with the Russians.
As the Time's Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt wrote, the former president pressed aides to lie about what he took and was hiding, thus also putting them -- and his attorneys -- in legal jeopardy.
The sole motive? A red herring? One of many ends?