Having been caught orange-handed, disgraced former President Trump has agreed to return the ancient Israeli artifacts loaned to the White House which he stole and kept at Mar-a-Lago for nearly three years after his humiliating defeat, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The story is, unsurprisingly, way more twisted than the simple mix-up and possibly unintended or innocuous theft in presented in the first report from earlier this week. Jewish Republican Saul Fox, a Trump donor and friend of now-former Israeli Antiquities Authority chief Israel Hasson had brokered the deal to put the items on display during the White House’s 2019 Hanukkah party, but they got waylaid by the State Department and didn’t end up being used for the celebration.

Fox tells the Journal was able to retrieve the ancient lamps and coins and bring them back to his home in California, but then COVID hit and Fox was unable to send them back to Israel. He forgot about them for two years until Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago’s 2021 Hanukkah party. Fox then remembered the artifacts and called Hasson, who agreed the pieces should be displayed at Mar-a-Lago. When Fox spoke with Trump privately prior to the dinner he had prepared short remarks praising the twice-impeached loser for his support for Israel, prompting Trump to slam his fists on the desk and scream “Well, how come I only got 25% of the Jewish vote?” according to Fox.

The rest of the story however seems to be Fox trying to fall on the grenade for the items ending up at Mar-a-Lago and that he and Hasson (who in late 2021 was no longer the Antiquities Authority chief) had decided that they were on an indefinite loan to Trump despite the authority demanding their immediate return. Fox does nothing to explain why they remained there for another year and a half after the 2021 Hanukkah Party. “This was something that was promised and done and I acted on it in good faith,” said Fox. Hasson told the Journal more or less the same thing.