For all of the detailed proof specified by the 38-count indictment accusing former President Donald J. Trump of holding onto a whole bunch of labeled paperwork after which obstructing the federal government’s efforts to retrieve them, one thriller stays: Why did he take them and struggle so arduous to maintain them?
Mr. Trump’s motive for having hundreds of presidential data — together with greater than 300 labeled paperwork — at Mar-a-Lago, his mixture residence and members-only membership in Palm Seaside,…