Donald Trump thought he crushed his Fox News interview while his lawyers watched in terror: report

Donald Trump apparently thought he killed the Fox News interview that caused more work for his lawyers and earned the former president mockery for potentially admitting to crimes.

Immediately following Trump's interview with Brett Baier of Fox News, he bragged about how well it went, according to Rolling Stone's report. The interview followed Trump's historic indictment and arraignment on charges related to the confidential documents Trump purportedly took and kept without permission.

"In the hours after his interview with Brett Baier aired on Monday, Trump privately boasted about how well he thought he performed," the outlet reported on Tuesday "As he asked others if they had caught the interview and what they thought of it, the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner said the tension and parrying with Baier made him look tough, creating buzzy, attention-grabbing television, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling Stone."

As Rolling Stone states, Trump "arguably confessed" to willfully withholding documents after he received a subpoena.

"Where Trump saw buzz, people hoping to keep him out of legal jeopardy saw trouble. Several of the ex-president’s current and former legal advisors watched on with exasperated sighs, and in some cases terror, according to three people familiar with the matter," the report says.

His lawyers are among those most upset by the interview and misstatements.

"One lawyer working in Trump’s orbit messaged Rolling Stone shortly after the interview first aired, predicting the Fox clip would be brought up by prosecutors at trial," the media report says. “'It was a disaster, if you are his lawyer,' says Ty Cobb, a former top Trump White House lawyer during a different special counsel probe. 'And they’ll have more of those, because they won’t be able to keep him quiet…Trump gave the government an enormous gift [in that Fox interview], and they will be able to use what he said to assist them in proving the former president’s intent as to virtually all the charges in the Mar-a-Lago indictment.'"