The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment, revealing the federal charges former President Donald Trump faces after an investigation into his handling of classified documents.
Former President Donald Trump said on an audio recording in 2021 that he had taken classified information with him to his Florida home after leaving the White House, ABC News has confirmed.Trump is heard on that audio recording described to ABC News as saying, "As president I could have declassified, but now I can't."The recording, first reported Friday morning by CNN, was made as part of an interview Trump gave for a book and was obtained by the special counsel's team.
According to a portion of the transcript of the call obtained by ABC News, Trump is heard acknowledging that the document he claims to have is "highly confidential" and "secret." "Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me," according to a transcript of the audio obtained by ABC News.
The transcript appears to suggest that Trump is showing the document in question to those in the room. "Well, with Milley -- uh, let me see that, I'll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn't that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this -- this is off the record, but -- they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him," the transcript said. "We looked at some. This was him. This wasn't done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff -- pages long, look.
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