The former president of the United States donald trump recognized in 2021 that he was in possession of undeclassified “secret” military information, according to a recording collected by the American chain CNN that is published less than 24 hours after the former president was defendant for deliberate withholding of national defense information, corrupt concealment of documents, conspiracy to obstruct justice and make false statements.
“When I was president I could have declassified it, but now I can’t,” Trump mentioned during a meeting held that year, when he had already left the Presidency, in relation to a classified document from thePentagon referring to an attack on Iran.
CNN reported last week that prosecutors had obtained a recording of a meeting that occurred that year at your residence of Bedminster, New Jersey, with two people who were working on the autobiography of his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
In the audio, Trump makes no attempt to hide the nature of the information in his hands. «Secret. This information is secret. Behold, look at this“says the former president. »The military made it and they gave it to me«, he adds. The reason for bringing up the subject was due to an interview given by the outgoing head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Army, General Mark Milley, in which the military man admitted having ordered, in the last days of the Trump Presidency, that his subordinates not accept any illegal order from the president.
In an angry voice, Trump assures on the tape that the information about the attack on Iran came directly from the general and that it was in no way his idea. «Look, I give you an example. Milley said that I wanted to attack Iran. Is it amazing or not? I have a huge stack of papers and this thing appears. Behold. This is all up to you. They presented this to me — I’m telling you this confidentially — and this is theirs. This is from the Department of Defense. I had nothing to do with it. It is yours, ”insists the former president.
«And what I have in my hands proves me right. But it turns out it’s, I mean, hugely confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this, “says Trump, in an alleged reference to the document.
The officials of the Secret Service They will meet this Friday with Trump’s legal team and security agents to develop a plan for their trip and appearance in federal court, according to a law enforcement official, as reported by CBS.
donald trump, that this year was first former president of the United States to be criminally indicted For the case of the alleged bribery of the porn actress Stormy Daniels, thus becomes the first in US history to be charged with federal criminal charges, according to the US newspaper ‘The Hill’.
The former president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has also assured that he had the right to have documents that he had already “unilaterally declassified without going through any formal process.”
