An audio recording has emerged of former President Donald Trump apparently discussing classified material in July of 2021 related to a potential military strike against Iran.
, Trump, 77, is heard shuffling through papers and discussing a purported plan hatched by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley to launch an attack against the US adversary while acknowledging that the information is “highly confidential” and “secret.”
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran – isn’t it amazing? I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up, look. This was him. They presented me this,” the former president says, apparently while showing off the classified document. “This was him. This was the Defense Department and him, we looked at some, this was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him … all sorts of stuff … pages long.”
Smith noted in the indictment that “none” of the parties involved in the conversation – a writer, a publisher, and two members of his staff – “possessed a security clearance.”Justice Department In the two-minute audio recording, Trump and a staffer – reportedly his communications aide Margo Martin – also joke about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, which Smith did not transcribe in the indictment. “No, she’d send it to Anthony Weiner,” Trump responds, referring to the former Democratic congressman whose laptop wasTrump noted in the recording that the document he was discussing wasn’t declassified.
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