Trump heard discussing secret documents on tape

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00:00 It's likely to be key evidence in the criminal case against Donald Trump.

00:05 First obtained by CNN, a newly released audio recording dating back to 2021 appears to reveal

00:11 the former U.S. president showing off a highly classified document to visitors at his golf

00:17 club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

00:18 This was done by the military, given to me.

00:19 I think we can probably -- right?

00:20 We'll have to see.

00:21 Yeah, we'll have to try to --

00:22 Declassify it.

00:28 See, as president, I could have declassified it.

00:32 Now I can't, you know, but this is --

00:34 Yeah, now we have a problem.

00:36 Isn't that interesting?

00:37 Yeah.

00:38 It's so cool.

00:39 I do.

00:40 Trump is under federal indictment for illegally keeping 31 classified national security documents

00:46 and conspiring with an aide to obstruct government efforts to retrieve them.

00:51 Among them, the document referred to in the recording, believed to be a plan for a preemptive

00:56 U.S. attack on Iran prepared by America's top military official.

01:01 The newly released audio appears to contradict what the former president told Fox News in

01:06 an interview last week, that all documents in his possession upon leaving office had

01:11 been declassified by him and that he had been referring to newspaper and magazine clippings

01:17 at Bedminster.

01:19 The U.S. Justice Department has requested Trump's trial in the case be postponed from

01:24 August to December.

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