Interesting. I don't know how accurate this is. It at the very least shows Trump was well aware he held classified documents and that he had been asked to return them.
According to The Daily Beast, after the National Archives had requested the return of classified materials from Trump for more than a year , he floated the idea that he would give the government back the classified stuff he had in exchange for for proof that the FBI’s Russia investigation was a “hoax." His aides used good sense and never made the proffer to the government.
The former president allegedly told his attorneys he’d give back the Mar-a-Lago files in exchange for one thing.
www.thedailybeast.com