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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team apparently leaked audio evidence to CNN featuring President Donald Trump discussing secret documents he did not declassify during a 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey. The leaked recording “comes from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster resort for people working on the memoir of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff,” CNN reported. The two minute audio recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” features Trump describing his political enemies as “bad sick people,” joking about Hillary Clinton’s emails, and...

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said it was “game over” for former President Donald Trump after audio was released Monday night of him discussing a “highly confidential” document with staffers. Weissmann, previously one of special counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that this case is not about the facts since the “tape recording is absolutely clear.” Weissmann added that this is now a matter of whether or not the government will start a trial before the...

In an audio recording recently made public, Donald Trump appears to discuss a sensitive military document and acknowledges he did not declassify it while president, consistent with a partial transcript included in his indictment by federal prosecutors earlier this month. Trump has claimed in media interviews after his indictment that he was not in possession of the document when he was talking. The indictment of he and aide Walt Natua included a partial transcript that redacted some specific names. In the 2021 recording, which was first reported by CNN and...

Audio recordings have landed Trump in hot water time and again, from the Access Hollywood tape to his “perfect” phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the recorded call in which he asked Georgia’s secretary of state to steal the 2020 election for him. Nevertheless, in July 2021 Trump agreed to let a publisher and writer working on his former chief of staff Mark Meadows’s book record their conversation, then proceeded to brag about how he had a highly classified document about Iran at his post-presidential residence in Bedminster,...

Donald ranted on his social media site overnight about the recently released recording of the former president in conversation about a classified document with biographers and staff. "The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and 'spun' a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe," . "This continuing Witch Hunt is another ELECTION INTERFERENCE Scam. They are cheaters and thugs!" An about six hours later: "COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THE...

Leftists and others who dislike Trump are delighted with the news that the Justice Department leaked an audio tape in which Trump is recorded saying that he has a “highly confidential” document that he then allegedly shows someone. In fact, I would argue that, whether looked at through the filter of substantive law, Trump’s personality, or inadmissible evidence, it’s a completely useless revelation—although everyone in the Justice Department connected to the leak should be summarily fired and then prosecuted. Politico describes what can be heard on the tape: In the...

An audio recording referenced in the federal indictment of Donald Trump featured the former president discussing a document about Iran that he described as "highly confidential" and admitted he could not declassify because he'd left office. "This is secret information," Trump said in the audio clip. "See, as president I could have declassified it," Trump added. "Now I can't." The recording, which first aired Monday evening on CNN, is a crucial piece of evidence in the Department of Justice's case against the former president over his alleged mishandling of classified...

Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested former President Trump may have been behind the leak of an audio recording showing Trump talking about his handling of classified documents. “You know what? If Trump thinks it’s an exoneration of him, perhaps somebody on his side actually did the leaking to CNN and Maggie Haberman,” Doocy said on Tuesday morning. “It does, actually,” Doocy said. “He’s admitting he’s got classified documents.” On the audio, published first by CNN, Trump is heard discussing classified documents and his disagreements on military policy toward Iran...

Fox News host Mark Levin tweeted a 3,700 character rant to defend Donald Trump against shocking audio of the former president flippantly sharing classified documents with guests. CNN first aired the leaked audio of Trump rifling through paper and bragging about “highly confidential, secret” documents he wanted to show them regarding a potential U.S. attack on Iran. CNN hasn’t said how they obtained the audio, and some have suspected that Trump himself leaked it. However, Levin tweeted that Trump “hasn’t leaked anything to the public” and that “we don’t know...

Fox News co-host Steve Doocy suggested on Tuesday that the audio of Donald Trump speaking about classified documents may have been leaked by the former president himself, or a member of his team. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy spoke about the leaked audio obtained by CNN this week where Trump can seemingly be heard speaking about classified documents in his possession. "If Trump thinks it's an exoneration of him, perhaps somebody on his side actually did the leaking to CNN and Maggie Haberman," Doocy said. The comments by Doocy...