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Trump: In an audio recording Donald Trump discusses a ‘highly confidential’ document with an interviewer
WASHINGTON: An audio recording from a gathering during which former President Donald Trump discusses a “extremely confidential” doc with an interviewer seems to undermine his later declare that he did not have such paperwork, solely journal and newspaper clippings.
The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for folks engaged on the memoir of his former chief of workers Mark Meadows, is a vital piece of proof in particular counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of categorized data.
The particular counsel’s indictment alleges that these in attendance on the assembly with Trump — together with a author, a writer and two of Trump’s workers members — have been proven categorized details about a Pentagon plan of assault on an unspecified international nation.
“These are the papers,” Trump says in a second that appears to point he is holding a secret Pentagon doc with plans to assault Iran. “This was achieved by the army, given to me.”
Trump’s reference to one thing he says is “extremely confidential” and his obvious displaying of paperwork to different folks on the 2021 assembly might undercut his declare in a latest Fox Information Channel interview that he did not have any paperwork with him.
“There was no doc. That was an enormous quantity of papers, and every thing else speaking about Iran and different issues,” Trump mentioned on Fox. “And it could have been held up or could not, however that was not a doc. I didn’t have a doc, per se. There was nothing to declassify. These have been newspaper tales, journal tales and articles.”
Trump pleaded not responsible earlier this month to 37 counts associated to the alleged mishandling of categorized paperwork saved at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Florida as a part of a 38-count indictment that additionally charged his aide and former valet Walt Nauta. Nauta is about to be arraigned Tuesday earlier than a federal choose in Miami.
A Trump marketing campaign spokesman mentioned the audio recording, which first aired Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” “gives context proving, as soon as once more, that President Trump did nothing flawed in any respect.”
The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for folks engaged on the memoir of his former chief of workers Mark Meadows, is a vital piece of proof in particular counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of categorized data.
The particular counsel’s indictment alleges that these in attendance on the assembly with Trump — together with a author, a writer and two of Trump’s workers members — have been proven categorized details about a Pentagon plan of assault on an unspecified international nation.
“These are the papers,” Trump says in a second that appears to point he is holding a secret Pentagon doc with plans to assault Iran. “This was achieved by the army, given to me.”
Trump’s reference to one thing he says is “extremely confidential” and his obvious displaying of paperwork to different folks on the 2021 assembly might undercut his declare in a latest Fox Information Channel interview that he did not have any paperwork with him.
“There was no doc. That was an enormous quantity of papers, and every thing else speaking about Iran and different issues,” Trump mentioned on Fox. “And it could have been held up or could not, however that was not a doc. I didn’t have a doc, per se. There was nothing to declassify. These have been newspaper tales, journal tales and articles.”
Trump pleaded not responsible earlier this month to 37 counts associated to the alleged mishandling of categorized paperwork saved at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Florida as a part of a 38-count indictment that additionally charged his aide and former valet Walt Nauta. Nauta is about to be arraigned Tuesday earlier than a federal choose in Miami.
A Trump marketing campaign spokesman mentioned the audio recording, which first aired Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” “gives context proving, as soon as once more, that President Trump did nothing flawed in any respect.”
