Trump's Troubles

Game set match to Jack Smith.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House | CNN Politics


Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trumpacknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.

The recording indicates Trump understood he retained classified material after leaving the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. On the recording, Trump’s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he’s aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records, two of the sources said.

The July 2021 meeting was held at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as aides employed by the former president, including communications specialist Margo Martin. The attendees, sources said, did not have security clearances that would allow them access to classified information. Meadows didn’t attend the meeting, sources said.

Meadows’ autobiography includes an account of what appears to be the same meeting, during which Trump “recalls a four-page report typed up by (Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) Mark Milleyhimself. It contained the general’s own plan to attack Iran, deploying massive numbers of troops, something he urged President Trump to do more than once during his presidency.”

 

Oh wow. This is going to be some fun levels of cognitive dissonance. The deep state made him say it!

 

Trumps only defense at this point is sticking with “I declassified it with my mind”…

 

I assume one of the last steps will be to dig up Ivana’s casket because her cremated remains aren’t all that’s in there. Watch the funeral. It take 9-10 reasonably big guys to cart her into church. By my math you could fit 100 reams of top secret documents weighing 500# total. Add her ashes 2 pounds and 300# for the casket and you’re looking at 800#, something that would definitely require 10 men.

I assume the DOJ has the grave site under surveillance…

 

Trump has violated the Stringer Bell rule so often without consequence, but maybe Jack Smith is Brother Mouzon

 

I will believe it when I see it re: Trump actually being charged etc.

 

I have my doubts about this. They’re claiming Trump understood something?

 

Trump's recording where he admits having the classified materials and showing it to people without clearance brings the Espionage Act into play. It's time to charge, and I hope we see them within the next month or two at the latest.

 

I believe this is what DeSantis has been counting on.

 

If that tape is real I don’t think Smith had a choice.

 

There’s a much greater than 0% chance that trump was just blowing it out his ass and bragging to people around him in his never ending effort to puff himself up. I don’t believe anything the man says - not going to start now. But he probably did it.

 

CNN is reporting that Trump's lawyers have tried to find the specific classified document that Trump discussed on tape, but so far have been unable to find it or return it...

 

It truly wouldn’t shock me if he just burned it so they couldn’t have it back.

 

Or he didn’t have in the first place and was just spewing falsehoods as he does occasionally*

* every few minutes

 

or flushed it 15 times

 

Because he got a fat check likely from the Saudis to hand it over to them.

 

It was known to exist, and it's not in the archive, so he either lost it, destroyed it, or is continuing to hide it ... or something worse.

 

If the DOJ still had it, they would not be looking for it. It has to be accounted for.