A 2021 audio recording of former President Donald Trump discussing a “highly secret” document about Iran that he admitted he could not make public because he was out of office contradicts his recent claim The material he was referring to appears to have been simply news clippings.
Portions of the transcript of Trump’s two-minute recording were cited in the indictment against Trump by federal prosecutors alleging that he mishandled classified documents after leaving office and then obstructed the government’s efforts. National security secrets were put at risk. retrieve them.
The recording captured her conversation in July 2021 with a publisher and author working on a memoir for Trump’s last chief of staff, Mark Meadows. In it, Trump discussed a “secret” plan drawn up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chairman of the Department of Defense, General Mark A. Milley, regarding Iran.
Trump was citing the document rebutting an article Milley feared could prevent him from creating a crisis with Iran after Trump loses his re-election bid in late 2020. The audio, which is likely to appear as evidence at Trump’s trial in the dossier case, was first run by CNN on Monday and also obtained by the NYT.
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