Veterans of former President Donald Trump’s administration have suggested that a secret plan of attack against Iran that he allegedly showed off in the summer of 2021 never actually existed.
As part of the 44-pageJune 9 against the 77-year-old Trump and his valet Walt Nauta, prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith recounted a conversation the 45th president had with a writer, a publisher and two members of his staff, during which Trump discussed a strategy to attack Iran he said was authored by Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Without getting into grand jury details, basically, I was like, ‘OK, show me the document you guys are referring to,'” Patel told The Post. “And they were like, ‘No, you should know which document.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re the government, you show me.’ [Then prosecutors said,] ‘Oh, we don’t have it.'”
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran, Isn’t it amazing?” Trump says. “I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was [Milley.] They presented me this – this is off the record but – they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.” “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents,” he told Semafor and ABC News reporters. “I didn’t have any documents.”the laughter in the audio suggests he was joking about having an Iran attack plan at all.
Grenell, who admitted he “wasn’t in the room” and doesn’t know what other papers Trump had, suggested that the former president was actually rifling through printed pages from the New Yorker report. “[Milley] was blunted in his preparations for war by the very real diplomats of the State Department who said, ‘No, we’re doing diplomacy,'” he said. “… President Trump never ever wanted war, so when the New Yorker piece – which I find to be complete bull—t – comes forward with, ‘Milley has a whole plan that Trump was briefed on to go to war with Iran,’ that is neocon craziness that did not exist in the Trump administration.
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