The first rule of Federal Indictment Club is: you don’t talk about your case. And the second rule of Federal Indictment Club is: you don’t talk about your case, period. You hire a good lawyer or two and let them talk about your case in public. The surest way to help the prosecution is to go on television and make a damaging admission about the key element of a charge.
Sort of like … this:
TRUMP: ‘We never got this stuff, this back. Can we please, please, could we have it back?’
BAIER: And they did ask for it?
TRUMP: [crosstalk] They have no — no —
BAIER: And they said, ‘could you give us the documents back?’ [crosstalk] And then they said — went to DoJ to subpoena you to get them back.
TRUMP: Which they’ve never done before.
BAIER: Right.
TRUMP: And in all fairness —
BAIER: Why not just hand them over then?
TRUMP: Because I had boxes — I wanted to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet. And I was very busy, as you’ve sort of seen.
BAIER: Yeah. [crosstalk] But according to the indictment, you then tell this aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you’d fully complied with the subpoena, when you hadn’t.
TRUMP: But before I send boxes over, I have to take all my things out of them. These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things
