In the two-minute recording, Trump can be heard stating, “these are the papers” while referring to something he calls “highly confidential.”
The tape comes from a July 2021 meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., golf club. | Andrew Harnik/AP PhotoFormer President Donald Trump appears to have acknowledged keeping national security documents he did not declassify, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN.
“This was done by the military and given to me,” Trump said in the recording. “See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” Trump describes his “big pile of paper” to people in the room and says, “Isn’t it amazing? … They presented me this — this is off the record.”, comes from a July 2021 meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., golf club. The existence of the tape, which CNN described as a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump, was reported by CNN earlier this month.
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