Michael Cohen is doing a TV interview tour to promote his new book. He just said something interesting about the seized documents from Mar-a-Lago.
He is convinced that the boxes contain personal and T***p Org financial documents that prove financial fraud. These are the same docs that T***p was compelled to surrender in previous NY investigations, but which he claimed were lost. This is criminal obstruction, open and shut. Cohen believes this was the main reason T***p is fighting the Mar-a-Lago case in court. If they had only seized official government docs, his logical defense would have been to plead ignorance, blame others, and then just give them back. But because he was stupid enough to intermingle everything in storage, it was hard to claim ignorance. So instead he went crazy: FBI planted them, I can declassify with my mind, and the real target of the search was Clinton’s emails.
When asked why T***p would want to take top secret docs in the first place, Cohen described it as a desperate “get out of jail free” card. If T***p was threatened with prison, he could have threatened to leak the information.
Yes, this is all very speculative, and the source isn’t exactly a choir boy. Regardless, it feels entirely plausible to me.