The CNN television station and other media outlets reported Wednesday evening (local time), citing informed circles, that investigators had come across an audio recording from the summer of 2021 in which Trump admitted to possessing a classified Pentagon document. He made it clear that he knew he had taken confidential material with him after leaving the White House. This could undermine Trump’s argument that he previously released all material found on him after leaving office – i.e., lifted the secrecy of the documents.
According to the reports, Trump’s statements referenced a document on Iran. The New York Times wrote that the audio recording came from a meeting Trump held in July 2021 with several people who helped his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, write his memoirs. The conversation took place on Trump’s property in New Jersey.
The Federal Police FBI had searched Trump’s private residence Mar-a-Lago in Florida last August and seized several classified information, some of them with the highest level of secrecy. The fact that the Republican kept the documents in his private home long after he left office could have prosecuted him. For months, the National Archives tried to obtain papers from the Trump administration. Trump’s lawyers eventually turned over documents — but by no means all of them, as the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search revealed.
The US Justice Department has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations against Trump. The Republican has criticized the investigation against him as politically motivated and has long complained that it was merely an attempt by his opponents to prevent him from returning to the White House. Trump officially announced last November that he wanted to run again in the November 2024 presidential election. (oee/sda/dpa)
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