The audio recording is a pithy summary of how Trump’s ego leads him into extraordinary predicaments of his own making, ZeeshanAleem writes.
even the most damning indictment
is unlikely to derail Trump with his adoring base. But the two-minute recording, in which Trump can be clearly heard referring to a “secret” document with his aides and people working on a memoir for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, clearly conveys his knowledge, intentions and mindset about the documents he held. It blows a giant hole in his claim that the remarks referred to newspaper articles instead of classified documents.
If you listen to the recording, Trump’s tone and asides are indeed likely to help the prosecutors’ case. One can hear shocking flippancy as he seems to confess that he could’ve declassified the document back when he was president but didn’t. Amid apparently discussing national security secrets with people unauthorized to hear them, he cracks jokes about former congressman Anthony Weiner’s being a “pervert.
It’s a perfectly Trumpian moment: an obsession with vindication, excitement about possession of power, and seamless shifts between rule-breaking and irreverence. Trump’s response to the release of the recording has been to double down on an increasingly implausible claim.
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