The former chief of staff told special counsel investigators he could not recall the president declassifying numerous classified materials that he took from the White House
reviewed by ABC, he described a post-presidency meeting where Meadows’ ghostwriter and publicist were at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., office. At that meeting, Meadows wrote, the former president was holding a classified draft of a plan to attack Iran. But before the book was published, Meadows had the publisher remove the paragraph describing that moment. Meadows told investigators that he requested the change because Trump having that document would be “problematic.
with Meadows’ ghostwriter and publicist, referencing the war plan. “This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me. As president I could have declassified, but now I can’t.”
The original draft of Meadows’ book went into more detail about the classified war plan than the final published version. “On the couch in front of the President’s desk, there’s a four-page report typed up by Mark Milley himself,” the draft said. “It shows the general’s own plan to attack Iran, something he urged President Trump to do more than once during his presidency. … When President Trump found this plan in his old files this morning, he pointed out that if he had been able to make this declassified, it would probably ‘win his case.
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