In an interview with Salon magazine, Michael Cohen said that Donald Trump saw the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago as a way to escape jail.
Cohen said that he was only interested in getting out of jail free. That is what he saw in those documents.
In an interview with Salon, Cohen suggested that Trump could use the confidentiality of the documents to his advantage.
Cohen asked if he wanted to play with him. Is that really true? I was the president of the US. There are documents that are so damaging that I have to destroy them. Try to throw me in prison. What happens?
He turns over all this classified information, not as if he hasn't already done it, but he turns all his classified information over to our adversaries. Are you interested in playing that game? No issue!
Cohen made a similar point in August. The documents would be used to get out of trouble.
Cohen said that when he was put in handcuffs, he would turn around and say he had the documentation to show where the nuclear launch pads are.
He claimed that Trump would give the information to Russia, Iran, or anyone else.
According to the Washington Post, FBI agents were looking for documents about nuclear weapons during the Mar-a-Lago raid. The source for the Post didn't say if it was the US arsenal or another country.
Cohen is not the only one who thinks that Trump may have kept the documents for himself. The senator said last month that he thinks the president might use classified information to get out of jail.
According to The New York Times, Trump wants to use classified documents as a bargaining chip The paper said that Trump suggested to his advisors that he return boxes of materials from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration in exchange for documents about the FBI investigation of his campaign's ties to Russia.
The proposal was not approved by the former president's aides.
Trump's post-presidency office didn't reply immediately.
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