Summary, because I know most won’t read it: Trump took the boxes because of incompetence generated by the chaos of the end of the administration. There is no more sinister reason, like the conspiratorial crap out there.
Trump just had his people pack up whatever was around - and since he always considered that stuff his (and, I’d add, never thought the rules applied to him), he took all the boxes with him, not even really knowing what was in them. And he just petulantly refused to return them. There’s not much more to this than that.
Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/us/politics/trump-fbi-search.html
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