Ex-US President Trump Was Heard Talking About Secret Reports On Tape



In a CNN audio recording, former US President Donald Trump can be heard talking about secret documents he had apparently kept and admitting that he hadn't declassified them.


In the 49-page indictment that special counsel Jack Smith filed against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents after he left office, portions of a recording's transcript were used as evidence.


The sound record played by CNN late on Monday, and furthermore got by ABC and CBS, incorporates a second when Trump appears to demonstrate he is holding a mysterious Pentagon report with plans to go after Iran.


In the recording, Trump says, "These are the papers," a quote that was not included in the indictment.


As he seems to be showing something to the other people in the room, he also says something is "highly confidential" and "this is secret information."


Trump adds, "This was done by the military and given to me," noting that the document is still classified.


"Isn't unreasonably fascinating? Trump says, "It's so cool," and at the end of the recording, he asks someone to bring some Cokes in.


Trump became the first president of the United States to face criminal charges when he pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts of intentionally mishandling US government secrets and conspiring to prevent their return.


The Division of Equity (DoJ) denounces Trump — who is competing to win back the White House one year from now — of disregarding the Surveillance Act and different regulations when he eliminated ordered reports after leaving office and neglected to surrender them to the Public Documents.


In its prosecution, the DoJ depicted proof including a sound recording from a July 2021 gathering that Trump, who was not generally president, had with a creator, a distributor, and two of his staff — none of whom had a US trusted status — in which Trump showed them what he called "confidential" and "exceptionally private" report.


The aggressive 77-year-old billionaire is accused of deliberately hoarding dozens of classified documents that he illegally brought to his beachfront Florida mansion, refusing to return them, and conspiring to obstruct investigators' efforts to recover them.


Additionally, Trump is accused of disclosing sensitive US information to individuals lacking a security clearance.


His criminal preliminary is probably booked to start on August 14, however, his lawful group is probably going to get the fundamental date moved back by months.