'A cool keepsake': Trump shares new, bizarre explanation for the classified documents confiscated at Mar-a-Lago

18 January 2023

Former President Donald Trump is now spinning a new, bizarre claim about the classified documents that were taken from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

According to Mediaite, Trump claims the number of documents taken from the White House were inflated and many of the folders were actually empty. In fact, Trump even insists he kept the empty folders because “they were a ‘cool’ keepsake."

The former president's remarks were included in a post he shared on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday, January 18.

In his post, Trump called out what he describes as the "Fake News Media & Crooked Democrats” for their report insisting he “had a 'large number of documents' in order to make the Biden Classified Docs look less significant.”

The former president offered insight into his time in office as he suggested documents were “distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with 'Classified' or 'Confidential' or another word on them. When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them…”

“Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a “cool” keepsake,” he continued. “Perhaps the Gestapo took some of these empty folders when they Raided Mar-a-Lago, & counted them as a document, which they are not.”

The former president's posts were broken down into two pages. The first one reads:

"Page 1: The Fake News Media & Crooked Democrats (That’s been proven!) keep saying I had a 'large number of documents' in order to make the Biden Classified Docs look less significant. When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, & 'papers' were distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with 'Classified' or 'Confidential' or another word on them. When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them…"

The second post addressed the "folders" while taking aim at President Joe Biden.

"Page 2: Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a 'cool' keepsake. Perhaps the Gestapo took some of these empty folders when they Raided Mar-a-Lago, & counted them as a document, which they are not. It’s also possible that the Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will “plant” documents while they’re in possession of the material. As President, and based on the Presidential Records Act & Socks Case, I did NOTHING WRONG. JOE DID!"

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