Sure he did. Once a subpoena was all but inevitable. This is the guy who hired a private legal team to clean out an office. The White House first tried to quietly return some documents to the National Archives, but their inspector general notified DOJ.
But then they started turning up in multiple places and it became less and less the nothingburger than originally claimed. Unless you consider comical incompetence to be nothing.
I don’t think we need a GOP plot to understand this situation. “Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity”.