The recording, the sources said, was made during a meeting at Bedminster that Trump held with people who were helping former chief of staff Mark Meadows with his book.
Meadows was not present for the July 2021 meeting, the sources said, but other Trump aides including Margot Martin were.
Witnesses in special counsel Jack Smith's probe have been questioned about the recording, sources familiar with the matter said.On the recording, which ABC News has not listened to nor obtained, Trump can be heard attacking the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and referenced one document in particular that Trump claimed Milley had compiled. Trump, who said he still had the document in his possession, said it was about attacking Iran.
During the August search, investigators uncovered more than 100 classified documents after Trump's team failed to comply with a June 2022 subpoena seeking all such records that remained in his possession. It's unclear whether the document at issue was part of the initial handover to the Archives or those seized by the FBI in the August 2022 search.
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