An audio of Trump in which he admits to having documents comes to light "highly confidential"

The US network CNN has published an audio of former US President Donald Trump in which he admits to having “highly classified” documents in his possession. which would disprove his previous claims that he had previously declassified these files. “This totally wins my case, you know? Except it’s highly classified,” Trump declared in audio tapes from July 2021, referring to files on an alleged US plan to invade Iran that he was sharing with other people from his team that they could not have access to such information. “You see, as president I could have declassified them.

Now I can’t, you know, but this is still secret,” added the former president, who was trying to show that the plans for war with Iran already existed before he arrived at the White House.

“I’ll give you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. (…) They presented me with this (this is unofficial). This was his. This was both his and the United States Department of Defense. (… ) This was not planned by me,” Trump said in recordings he was aware of, according to CNN.

The former president has repeatedly denied 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.”

Trump faces up to 37 criminal charges ranging from willful withholding of national defense information to conspiracy to obstruct justice as part of the investigation against him into more than 300 classified documents.s who met at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

In addition, the former president did not inform the Secret Services that he was storing boxes of classified documents. The tycoon would have gone so far as to order his assistant to move the papers from one place to another so that his team of lawyers would not see them and even suggested destroying them.