Trump On Allegedly Stating That He Showed Classified Doc To Others: ‘There Was No Document’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Former President Donald Trump said during an interview on Monday that he did not show classified documents to individuals without security clearances despite his claim on an alleged audio tape that he did.

    Trump, who was charged earlier this month with 37 felonies in the federal investigation into his handling of classified national defense information, is accused of showing classified material to a writer who was interviewing the former president.

    The indictment states:

    In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey ("The Bedminster Club"), during an audio-recorded meeting with a writer, a publisher, and two members of his staff, none of whom possessed a security clearance, [Trump] showed and described a "plan of attack" that [Trump] said was prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official. [Trump] told the individuals that the plan was "highly confidential" and "secret." [Trump] also said, "as president I could have declassified it," and, "Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."

    Fox News anchor Bret Baier brought up that portion of the indictment - which allegedly detailed a plan of attack against Iran - during his interview with Trump and asked if the former president remembered doing that.

    "It wasn't a document," Trump said. "I had lots of paper. I had copies of newspaper articles. I had copies of magazines."

    Baier responded, "This is specifically a quote, you're quoted on the recording saying the document was 'secret,' adding that you could have declassified it while you were president, but, quote, 'Now I can't, you know, this is still secret, highly confidential.' And the indictment cites the recording and the testimony from people in the room saying you showed it to people there that day."

    Trump rejected those statements, claiming that it was "just the opposite."

    "You say on tape you can't declassify," Baier responded. "So why have it?"

    "When I said that, I couldn't declassify it now because I wasn't president, I never made any bones about that," Trump answered. "When I'm not president, I can't declassify."

    When Baier again mentioned that Trump was recorded on tape saying those things, Trump responded, "No, no. Bret, there was no document."

    WATCH:

BAIER: "According to the indictment, [...] you were recorded saying that had a document detailing a plan of attack on another county [...] the Iran attack plan. Do you remember that?"TRUMP: "Ready? It wasn't a document. I had lots of paper. I had copies of newspaper articles." pic.twitter.com/QJMzyxBrYq

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poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

926 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#173

In the face of a known scandal finally being revealed by the corrupt Legacy Media regarding Joe Biden, his Mishandling of Classified Documents and his long history of Influence Peddling to our Foreign Adversaries for Personal and Familial Profit: What do you believe the outcome will be in America's Leftist practice of a Two Tiered Justice System?

  Nothing will happen since the Democratic Socialist Left is corrupt to the core, and their non patriot ambitions are only the control of power.

  Justice WILL be served, but NOT without a tremendous fight by those willing to save the Republic.

  Why can't everyone else understand that the Left is special because we care so much for our own, especially the well being of the president and his family, especially Hunter.

  What difference does it make; I am a product of a failed public education system.

441 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

624 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?