Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump's 2021 conversation about classified documents

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

The recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.

“These are the papers,” Trump says in the audio recording, while he’s discussing the Pentagon attack plans, a quote that was not included in the indictment.

In the two-minute audio recording, Trump and his aides also joke about Hillary Clinton’s emails after the former president says that the document was “secret information.”

“Hillary would print that out all the time, you know. Her private emails,” Trump’s staffer said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio/index.html

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LINK TO AUDIO: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/06/26/trump-audio-classified-documents-ac360-vpx.cnn

[Major Nikon]

1. The best part is how he accuses HRC of leaking classified documents

…at the same time he’s blatantly leaking classified documents.

She must be having a huge belly laugh about right now.

[LisaM]

4. Did he? He said they were her PRIVATE emails.

I don't think he fully understands (or cares to understand) that all Hillary did was have a different server, as she had been told she could. He can't tell an apple from an orange.

[Major Nikon]

6. Why worry about reality when you have a cult that believes everything you say?

We’re talking about people who believe in shape shifting lizard creatures who take human form. It would be one thing if this were a situation where a small minority of the party is that gullible, but virtually all of them either believe it or just don’t care that it’s bullshit. I’m not sure which is worse.

[Walleye]

2. I'm thinking of all the serious people who spend their careers following the rules

To make sure that none of the nation’s top secrets end up in enemy hands. I wonder how they feel listening to these chuckleheads laugh and guffaw about this stuff

[orleans]

5. and, weirdly, i'm wondering how many of those "serious" people are trump supporters

and, for whatever reason and excuse they can provide for him within their minds, how many would still vote for him.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

7. I didn't spend long doing it

But I did spend several years doing it.

And I'm pissed as hell. It's not the knowing I would have been jacked up and fried for it if I'd done it. It's the lack of concern for the damage he's done to the nation and its security that really ticks me off.

Yeah, there's a bunch of over-classification out there, but plans for how to deal with a foreign country, nukes info, covert operations--That stuff needs to stay under wraps.

As I used to tell my ex, who had an even higher clearance and access to some of the most sensitive stuff out there--You don't have to worry that I'll ask you about any of that. Whatever you're dealing with that I can't know--I don't want to know. It's too bloody scary to know it.

[peppertree]

3. Traitor Tot's big mouth, in a way, is his only virtue

God does have a sense of humor.

[Justice matters.]

8. So the house of traitoR$ will defend him in 3, 2, 1...

then they'd blame... Brandon?

[70sEraVet]

9. The best line in the tape, is Trump saying this IRONIC sentence,....

"This totally wins my case, you know!"