NEW: Donald Trump told Andrew Napolitano that he didn’t release the JFK assassination records because “if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either.”

Napolitano said the comments came one week before Trump left office in 2021.

“I said, ‘you promised you would release the records of the JFK assassination.’”

“He said to me, ‘Judge, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either.’”

“And I said, ‘who's they? And what did they show you?’”

“‘And then he said, ‘Judge, someday when we're on the phone.’ And then he raised his voice, ‘And there aren't 15 people listening to the phone call,’ back to a normal voice. ‘I'll tell you.’”