CNN Acquires Audio of Trump’s Meeting on Classified Documents

Hold on to your seats, folks, because CNN just dropped a bombshell. They obtained an audio recording of a 2021 meeting where former President Donald Trump discussed having secret documents that he did not declassify. And guess what? The network ran the audio on Anderson Cooper 360. In the recording, Trump can be heard showing the confidential documents to others in the room while they discussed Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Portions of the audio are even cited in the federal indictment of Trump over his withholding of classified documents after he left the White House. But wait, there’s more! In the conversation, reportedly with the writers of Mark Meadows’ autobiography, Trump referred to the document and confirmed that it remained classified. He even said, “See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” And get this, the classified documents reportedly were Pentagon plans for an attack on Iran. Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier that he “didn’t have a document, per se,” and instead suggested that he was showing newspaper and magazine stories. But in the audio, Trump seems to be referring to classified material when he says, amid the sound of shuffling papers, “This is secret information. Look, look at this.” Don’t believe us? Check out the audio below.