2023-06-27 05:06:23
On Monday, the American “CNN” network revealed an audio recording of a meeting held by former US President Donald Trump in 2021, during which he acknowledged that he was keeping a secret document of the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon) regarding a possible attack on Iran.
And the American network broadcast the recording on the “Anderson Cooper 360” program, and it included new details from the conversation, which is an important part of the evidence in the indictment against Trump for his mishandling of classified information, including the moment when Trump appears to indicate that he kept a secret document about Possible plan to attack Iran.
“Here are the cards,” Trump said in the recording, as he discussed plans for the attack.
In the two-minute audio recording, Trump and his aides also joked about Hillary Clinton’s emails after the former president said the document was “classified information.” Someone told Trump, “Hillary was going to print that.” Donald Trump replied, “No, she was.” You’re going to send it to Anthony Weiner,” referring to the former Democratic congressman, drawing laughter.
Clinton was investigated by the FBI over her handling of classified information in the days leading up to the 2016 election, which she lost to Trump.
Trump’s remarks during the audio recording could undermine claims he made in an interview with Fox News last week that he did not have any classified documents.
Earlier this month, the former US president pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of alleged mishandling of classified documents.
The audio recording was from an interview Trump gave in July 2021 at his Bedminster retreat of people working on the memoirs of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The indictment said those present were shown classified information about the plan to attack Iran.
In contrast, Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung said in a statement, “The audio recording proves, once again, that President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.”
What did Trump say about the secret document in detail?
The recording begins with Trump claiming, “These are bad patients,” while another person speaking to him, who appears to be an aide, claims there has been a “coup” against Trump. The audio recording shows there is a mixed bag, with Trump telling the audience he has an example to show. “He said I want to attack Iran, isn’t that amazing?” Trump says as the shuffling of cards can be heard. “I’ve got a big pile of papers, this thing just came out. Look. That was it. Give me this – that’s not for publication but – give me this.” “That’s what the military did and gave it to me,” Trump continues, before indicating that the document was kept secret. “I could have declassified that as president,” Trump says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
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