Subject: Audio of Trump's Conversation
CNN has released the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where president Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.

You'll recall Trump told Bret Baier: "There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn't have a document, per se. There was nothing to declassify."

His own words prove he was lying.

Trump was annoyed over a New Yorker article about Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley that said Milley argued against striking Iran and was concerned Trump would set in motion a full-scale conflict.

TRUMP: "He said that I wanted to attack Iran, Isn't it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this -- this is off the record but -- they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him."

As his conversation with people working on the memoir of Mark Meadows go on, they laugh about Clinton's mishandling of documents as they mishandle top secret documents. ('Hillary would print that out all the time, you know. Her private emails,' Trump's staffer said. 'No, she'd send it to Anthony Weiner,' Trump responded, referring to the former Democratic congressman, prompting laughter in the room.)

Trump finds the top secret documents.

"These are the papers," Trump continues, according to the audio file.

"This was done by the military and given to me," Trump continues, before noting that the document remained classified.

"See as president I could have declassified it," Trump says. 'Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret.'

"Now we have a problem," his staffer responds.

"Isn't that interesting," Trump says.

While that's the last line included in the indictment, the audio recording obtained by CNN includes several additional lines from the conversation:

Trump: "It's so cool. I mean, it's so, look, her and I, and you probably almost didn't believe me, but now you believe me."

Writer: "No, I believed you."

Trump: "It's incredible, right?"

Writer: "No, they never met a war they didn't want."

Trump: "Hey, bring some, uh, bring some Cokes in please."


So, Trump cult... what say you?

Just a nothingburger when the former president says: Hey, just look at these top secret documents, folks. So cool!!!! Now that you've seen these top secret documents, you believe me, right?

And hey, bring me a Coke.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26...