CNN reports:
Former President Donald Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2021 meeting that he had retained “secret” military information that he had not declassified, according to a transcript of the audio recording obtained by CNN. “As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says, according to the transcript.
CNN obtained the transcript of a portion of the meeting where Trump is discussing a classified Pentagon document about attacking Iran. In the audio recording, which CNN previously reported was obtained by prosecutors, Trump says that he did not declassify the document he’s referencing, according to the transcript.
Publicly, Trump has claimed that all the documents he brought with him to his Florida residence are declassified, while he’s railed against the special counsel’s investigation as a political witch hunt attempting to interfere with his 2024 presidential campaign.
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The cult will surely call the audio a deep fake.
“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says in the recording now in the hands of the special counsel. https://t.co/Dak2LRcKeD
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 9, 2023
Trump on tape: “I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look…This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information.” https://t.co/Dak2LRcKeD
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 9, 2023
“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.” https://t.co/CJjIojcbHU
— Molly Jong-fast (@MollyJongFast) June 9, 2023