Posted on 06/20/2023 4:26:32 AM PDT by CFW
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he did not show the classified U.S. military document that he referred to during an audio-recorded meeting with a book publisher in July 2021.
In the first of a two-part Fox News interview on Monday, Trump insisted that he never showed any classified military plan to attack Iran prepared by General Mark Milley, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump says he never ordered the plan.
The meeting occurred on July 21, 2021, approximately six months after Trump’s presidency ended, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The meeting involved a writer, publisher, and two aides of the former president, and centered around a forthcoming book authored by Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff.
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Contrary to the charges made in the indictment, Trump insisted that the papers he had during the meeting consisted of numerous newspaper and magazine clippings “about Iran and other things” that referred to a classified military plan rather than the actual classified documents.
“There was no document,” Trump insisted during Monday’s Fox News interview.
“That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things,” he continued. “And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document, per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.”
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Not sure but I think these recordings are part of what they violated the client/lawyer privilege to obtain.
Not sure if Trump’s legal team was going to use that in its defense arguments, but they will have to now
Of course, the government is lying about this.
That’s what I said last week...He was telling them how things worked. And the map one....”now don’t get too close....you can’t see this” was obviously a joke in the making.
Largest joint US-Israel military exercise with Iran focus was held in January-February.
No one ran to the FBI with the recording.
The meeting in question involved a writer and a publisher. PDJT’s staff was recording the meeting because they had concerns that he was not being portrayed accurately in the press.
The recording was on the laptop of aide Margo Martin, which was obtained by the FBI via subpoena.
He violated the gag order. Oooooo! Indict him again!/s
These people, and anyone carrying their water are sick.
That’s right, I said it!
When a girl is raped, we now blame the girl for wearing nice pants.
Brutal.
I don’t like ‘tard land. Where good guys are bad guys and bad guys are good guys.
I like it the other way.
Trump “was using the papers on his desk as an example while explaining his authority as President” re handling classified documents.
“However, my question is who is running to the FBI with recordings of Trump and his conversations with others?”
Obviously, it’s somebody close to him. Could even be a turncoat spy on his security team.
Yup, as always they make stories out of nothing and run with it for Years. Too many people still fall for this. It’s ALL fake.
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