Donald Trump says Bedminster audio leak will hurt 2024 bid

President Donald Trump has been outraged by the political community’s reaction to an audio recording that appears to show the former president revealing classified Pentagon information about Iran during a 2021 meeting. This is a pivotal episode in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump.

In a recording obtained by CNN, Trump said in a July 2021 interview at a golf club in Bedminster with people involved in writing a book about former chief of staff Mark Meadows that Trump said, “These are the papers. ‘ is shown in the video. new jersey.

The citation was not included in the indictment and appears to undermine Trump’s assertion in a recent Fox News interview that he did not have classified documents related to military plans to attack Iran.

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“It may or may not have been withheld, but it wasn’t a document. It didn’t have a document per se. Nothing to declassify,” Trump said on Fox. told Brett Beyer of the News. “These were newspaper articles, magazine articles, articles.”

The Bedminster case is one of two federal indictments against Trump for publicly displaying classified information without permission.

Trump faces 37 charges of improperly storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago, Fla., mansion and obstructing efforts to return them to the National Archives.

Trump claimed on his social media platform Truth Social that the tape did not prove a crime and was leaked to undermine Trump’s prospects for 2024.

“Deranged Special Counsel Jack Smith worked with the Department of Justice and the FBI to illegally leak and ‘disseminate’ my tapes and records. This is not what they are led to believe, actually innocent,” Trump wrote. . “This ongoing witch hunt is another election sabotage scam. They are scammers and thugs!”

Steve Laffey, one of Trump’s lesser-known Republican rivals, said the tape proved Trump was unfit for office.

Raffey, a presidential candidate and former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, said, “Too bluntly boasting about the contents of the document confirms what we already know: Donald Trump is a narcissist and an official. It’s not appropriate,” he said. . “He should stop campaigning for president and let the adults take over.”

President Donald Trump has been outraged by the political community’s reaction to an audio recording that appears to show the former president revealing classified Pentagon information about Iran during a 2021 meeting. This is a pivotal episode in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump.