Investigators have obtained a 2021 audio recording of former Pres. Trump acknowledging he held onto a sensitive military document after leaving office, sources say.
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Harlingen, Texas.Federal investigators have in their possession an audio recording of former Presidentfrom July 2021, on which he acknowledges he held onto a sensitive military document after leaving office, sources confirm to ABC News.
The recording was made during a meeting at Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, that Trump held with people who were helping former chief of staff Mark Meadows with his memoir, according to sources. Trump indicated during the recording that he knew the document in question was secret, the sources said.
Meadows was not present for the meeting, the sources said, but other Trump aides, including Margot Martin, were there.after leaving office, has questioned witnesses about the recording, sources familiar with the matter said.A Trump spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News, "Leaks from radical partisans behind this political persecution are designed to inflame tensions and continue the media's harassment of President Trump and his supporters.
"The DOJ's continued interference in the presidential election is shameful and this meritless investigation should cease wasting the American taxpayer's money on Democrat political objectives," the Trump spokesperson said.On the recording, which ABC News has not listened to nor obtained, Trump is heard attacking Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and referencing one document in particular that Trump claimed Milley had compiled, according to sources.
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