The DOJ issued subpoenas for a classified document Trump described in a 2021 recording. They’ve turned up nothing.
The recorded meeting reportedly took place in July 2021 at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. The former president met with biographers for his former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who was not present, and members of his own staff.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the recording told CNN that the president indicated that while he wished he could describe the contents of a document to attendees, but couldn’t because several people present lacked clearance. He reportedly indicated he was both aware he had retained classified materials and that he could not flat-out declassify documents following his departure from the presidency. The latter acknowledgment blows a hole in Trump’s claims that the trove of hundreds of documents he kept at following his departure from office was perfectly legal because he could declassify documents just by “saying” so or “thinking about it.” , and claimed he didn’t “know anything about it.”
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