The former US president donald trump, who has been charged with the way he managed documents with state secrets after leaving the White House, he defended himself Sunday in an interview with Fox News, saying it was too “busy” to deselect classified documents.

In this unusually tough interview that aired yesterday, Monday night, on the conservative network, the 77-year-old Trump, who will try to win back the US presidency next year, noted that during his quick exit from the White House he January 2021, his personal belongings were mixed with government documents.

“For my part, I took them out in a hurry, but the people packed them up and we left. I had clothes in there, I had all kinds of personal items in there – a lot of things.” “I have every right to have these boxes,” he declared.

When Fox News reporter Bret Baier asked him because he simply did not deliver the documents when asked by federal agents, Trump replied: “Because I had boxes, I wanted to search through those boxes to get all my personal things. I didn’t want to hand them over (…) for now.”

“I’ve been very busy, as you can tell,” he added.

Trump appeared a week ago before a federal judge in Miami to be formally charged with 37 charges in the investigation that began against him after the FBI searched his Florida mansion last August.

The Republican former president is accused of endangering US security by keeping the classified documents, which included military plans or information on nuclear weapons, in toilets or storage rooms at his luxury home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, instead of to deliver them to the National Archives.