Last night, we got a chance to hear the Malignant Loser in his own words admitting he had classified documents that he shouldn't have in his possession:
In the 2-minute audio clip, Trump can be heard describing a document compiled by Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Trump was president, on the potential attacks against Iran. The discussion of the file was recorded during a 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, with people working on Milley’s memoir.
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t it amazing?” Trump says of Milley in the audio clip as the sound is heard of that appears to be shuffling papers. “I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this ― this is off the record, but ― they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”
“All sorts of stuff, pages long. Let’s see here,” the former president continues. “Isn’t that amazing. This totally wins my case, you know, except that it is like highly confidential, secret, this is secret information.”
Trump went on to say the papers he was showing his guest were classified.
“See, as president I could have declassified it,” Trump said in the clip. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” [snip]
The recording is reportedly a key piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s case into Trump’s handling of classified files after his presidency.
Federal prosecutors indicted Trump on 37 criminal counts this month, accusing the former president of repeatedly risking national security and undermining the government’s efforts to see the return of boxes of documents from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The indictment cites the conversation obtained by CNN.
Trump has rejected the claims and pleaded not guilty to all counts. He has said he had the absolute right to take anything he wanted when he left the White House under the Presidential Records Act and that he had a standing order to declassify anything removed from the Oval Office during his presidency.
Prosecutors, however, appear to have homed in on Trump’s own words during their investigation. The indictment lays out at least two conversations — including the one in the CNN file — in which he acknowledged material in his possession was still classified...
Here's the clip:
Wow CNN got the tape of Trump’s conversation about classified documents pic.twitter.com/0NVQYAEkor
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 27, 2023
That conversation (and others Special Counsel Jack Smith may have, plus sworn testimony) is enough to convict the Malignant Loser, according to legal experts and our own ears. To be clear, existence of this conversation has been known for about a month. Hearing it in his own words, rather than reading a transcript, takes it to a different level. This confession confirms that he had classified documents in his possession, knew they were classified, and proceeded to show the documents to others. That in itself covers the felony counts involving possession and knowledge of possession of classified documents and the Espionage Act (sharing classified documents). The only thing that will keep this p.o.s. out of jail is a MAGAt judge and/or a MAGAt jury member. Otherwise, the case is, unlike the OceanGate Titan, airtight.
It's hard to believe that someone so ignorant, reckless and deranged was ever President, and that there's a large cohort of knuckle- draggers in this country who would entrust our national security to this moron again.
(Image: Always a crime scene/ Rebecca Zisser/Axios)
