Trump Tapes
WASHINGTON: Audio recordings of a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a “highly classified” document with an interviewer appear to have undermined his later claim that he did not have such documents, only There were magazine and newspaper clippings.
The recording, from a July 1, 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for people working on the memoirs of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, follows Trump’s investigation into the misuse of classified information by special counsel Jack Smith.
is a vital piece of evidence in the indictment.
The special counsel’s indictment alleges that attendees of the meeting with Trump — including an author, a publisher and two Trump staff members — were shown classified information about Pentagon plans to attack an unspecified foreign country Was.
“These are the papers,” Trump said in a moment of what appeared to be a secret Pentagon document containing plans to attack Iran.
“It was done by the army, which was given to me.” The reference to something Trump said is “highly confidential” and that he apparently showed the document to others at the 2021 meeting could undermine his claim in a recent Fox News Channel interview that he didn’t have any documents . “There was no document.
Trump said on Fox, he had a huge amount of papers, and everything else was talking about Iran and other things. “And it may have been withheld or not kept, but that was not a document. I didn’t have any documents.
There was nothing to make public. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles. Trump earlier this month pleaded not guilty to 37 counts as part of a 38-count count related to the alleged misuse of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The indictment also charged his aide and former valet, Walt Nauta. Nauta will be indicted on Tuesday before a federal judge in Miami.
A Trump campaign spokesman said the audio recording, which first aired Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” “provides context proving once again that President Trump did nothing wrong. At all.” Trump Tapes”
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