'They're mine': New details of Trump feud with lawyers revealed in latest report

In the fall of 2022 an attorney representing Donald Trump sought to avert charges in the classified documents case by negotiating a settlement with the Justice Department, but Christopher Kise never got the chance.

His plan to “take the temperature down” was rejected by the former president, The Washington Post reports.

Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany write for The Post that “That quiet entreaty last fall was one of many occasions when lawyers and advisers sought to get Trump to take a more cooperative stance in a bid to avoid what happened Friday. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment including more than three dozen criminal counts against Trump for allegedly keeping and hiding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.”

Former Trump attorney Alex Cannon in the fall of 2021 repeatedly urged the former president to return documents to the National Archives, according to the report, which notes that he repeatedly admonished him that he was required to do so.

His warning to Trump that the National Archives threatened to go to Congress or the Justice Department if Trump declined to return the documents was brushed off by the former president, the report said.

“It’s mine,” Trump said, according to the report.

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As the National Archives ramped up pressure on Trump to return the documents, the former president grew defiant according to the report, which notes he brought in new lawyers, including Evan Corcoran.

Corcoran has since provided testimony that’s central to the case against Trump indicating the former president urged him to “stonewall” or decline to comply with a subpoena.

“I really don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes,” he said, Corcoran is cited in the indictment as saying.

Trump also said, according to Corcoran’s testimony, “Well, what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” and “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything there?”

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