He said as much in a recent interview, and also the fact that he and his team were working with the archives to secure the documents when they decided to send out the goon squad. He said this! I remember hearing it in a fairly recent interview.
He said they were all secure. They weren’t. The Trump staff was wheeling them into the “secure” room the evening before the Fed’s showed up for their talks.
Trump lies so much, and people ignore logic and simply believe him.