For 9 months, he’ll claim he doesn’t have them and also that he had the right to take them, even though they don’t exist (and also he shows them to folks at the resort).
In a year, he’ll claim he has been too busy to figure out which boxes the relics are stored in and needs time to separate out his golf shirts and newspaper clippings from among the relics, and also he doesn’t have them and has them and had every right to take them, and also Bibi begged him to take the relics as a gift to America.