Donald Trump boasted about obtaining a classified document in the presence of multiple people in a recording broadcast by the media Monday night, which was cited as a key exhibit in the federal indictment against the former president.
We hear the Republican billionaire offer this document, admitting that it is “classified” and “top secret” and not “declassified,” as described during his June 13 indictment.
In addition to passages already revealed in the indictment, a nearly two-minute recording, first broadcast by CNN, appears to confirm that this document is a top-secret plan detailing a hypothetical attack against Iran.
Of his former chief of staff Mark Milley, Donald Trump said, “He said I wanted to attack Iran,” and then we hear him rummage through the papers and resume: “Look. They came from him, they gave it to me, it’s off the record, but they gave this to me. defense and from it.”
The former president made these statements, recorded on July 21, 2021 according to the indictment, in front of staff and two people who came to interview him to write a book — the memoirs of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to CNN. .
“As president, I could have declassified it,” he said of the document. “Now I can’t, you know, but it’s still a secret.”
“Now we have a problem,” one of the advisors replied with a laugh.
The former president denounced Monday evening, after the broadcast of this recording, “a new election interference,” and the special prosecutor Jack Smith, in the original indictment, which he described as “troubled”, accused the Department of Justice and the US Federal Police (FBI) of “illegally leaking it and Highlight the audio recording.
Donald Trump, who was indicted in mid-June on 37 counts including “unlawfully withholding information relating to national security,” “obstruction of justice” and “perjury,” has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami.
His trial, historic and potentially very damaging to his campaign for the 2024 US presidential election, was set to start on August 14 by the judge in charge of the case, but prosecutor Smith asked for it to be postponed to December 11. , according to court documents filed Friday.
Donald Trump is accused of endangering the security of the United States by keeping classified documents, including military plans or information related to nuclear weapons, in unsafe places in his private residences.
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