This is the least surprising behavior from our mob boss former president.

President Donald Trump improperly removed multiple boxes from the White House that were retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration last month from his Mar-a-Lago residence because they contained documents and other items that should have been turned over to the agency, according to three people familiar with the visit.

We’ve known since at least 2018 that Trump didn’t properly preserve presidential records and frequently just tore documents into pieces. More recently, the Washington Post was reported extensively on his “relentless document destruction habits.” So, respect for the law was never a consideration and anyone could have predicted that he’d steal and squirrel away anything he wanted without a thought for history or possible legal consequences. In fact, anything that appealed to either his vanity or his desire to cover his tracks would be an obvious candidate for theft. So, what kinds of things (that we know about) did he haul to Mar-a-Lago?

Trump advisers deny any nefarious intent and said the boxes contained mementos, gifts, letters from world leaders and other correspondence. The items included correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump once described as “love letters,” as well as a letter left for his successor by President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the contents.

Ah, yes, why didn’t it occur to me that Trump would steal his love letters to Kim Jong Un? Such precious memories. Most prized souvenirs from his time as leader of the free world.

And there are other letters with other world leaders, perhaps Rodrigo “the Punisher” Duterte of the Philippines or China’s “Big Daddy” Xi Jinping or Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, known as “father of the bullet.”

Of course, every administration has at least some violations of the Presidential Records Act. Complete preservation and compliance isn’t possible, and probably the law isn’t well enough defined in our digital age. But every time Trump flaunted or broke a law and got away with it, he weakened our system, and this is another example. Not only that, but his criminal behavior in office means that these records are of more than mere historical interest. They’re evidence for both civil and criminal complaints as well as the congressional investigation into the January 6 investigation.

And why did Trump prefer the world’s worst leaders to our allies? His love letters might help us answer that question.