Federal prosecutors have obtained a recording of former President Donald Trump on which he acknowledges that he was in possession of classified documents he took with him when he left the White House and that he did not have the power to declassify them, CNN reported Wednesday.
also confirmed the report, which detailed how the recording is being scrutinized as part of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving Washington. According to the reports, in a 2021 meeting with people who don't have security clearances, Trump is heard at his Bedminster, N.J., golf course discussing a multipage, classified document in his possession that pertains to a possible attack on Iran.
"There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it, because different people say different things. If you're the president of the United States you can declassify just by saying it's declassified — even by thinking about it," Trump said in a."In other words, when I left the White House, they were declassified."
“If you have the authority to declassify, you are not wedded to any bureaucratic process,” Trusty told CNN. If Trump is found to have revealed information contained in classified documents to people who did not have security clearances, the Justice Departmentwhich prohibits such disclosures if they could potentially harm U.S. security.
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