“ He was being sarcastic or ironic or mocking or etc. ... in his comments about the position of the archivists and the documents.”
I’m sure you believe that, and perhaps Trump will try to argue that, but I think he will have a harder time getting a jury to buy that argument.
***Several sources have told CNN the recording captures the sound of paper rustling, as if Trump was waving the document around, though is not clear if it was the actual Iran document.
“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”***
He obviously was being sarcastic, if you accept CNN’s account here.
Note that it NOPLACE says he gave anyone the document(s) to read. It sounds like they’re saying he was waving a batch of papers in the air saying (sarcastically) ““Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,””
But it no place says anyone actually received it and read it. In fact, it could have been a random stack of paper he had picked up while being dramatic.