The former president of the United States Donald Trump has justified not having returned to the authorities the classified documents that he took from the White House because he was “too busy” to search for them inside the boxes that he had stored in his mansion.

This was stated by the Republican to the ultra-conservative channel Fox News in the first interview he has given since last week he was prosecuted for 37 federal crimes for having refused to hand over the documentation, which included nuclear secrets.

Trump recounted that failed to provide documents when requested to do so by the National Archives Administration because he had to get his “personal items” out of the boxes first, but he was “too busy” and didn’t have time to do it. “Before delivering the boxes, he had to take out a lot of things. Those boxes were full of all kinds of things like golf shirts, clothes, pants, shoes. There were a lot of things,” he said.

According to the indictment, the former president illegally took hundreds of classified documents, including nuclear secrets, which he stored in boxes at various points in his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) mansion when he left the Presidency in 2021. such as a bedroom, a ballroom, a bathroom and a shower.

Trump, who still Today he refuses to admit that he lost the 2020 elections Against the incumbent president, Democrat Joe Biden, he is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.