Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a 38-count indictment that also charged his aide and former valet Walt Nauta. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.” “And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. That was a massive amount of papers, and everything else talking about Iran and other things,” Trump said on Fox. Trump’s reference to something he says is “highly confidential” and his apparent showing of documents to other people at the 2021 meeting could undercut his claim in a recent Fox News Channel interview that he didn’t have any documents with him. WATCH: National security experts weigh in on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents “This was done by the military, given to me.” “These are the papers,” Trump says in a moment that seems to indicate he’s holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran. The special counsel’s indictment alleges that those in attendance at the meeting with Trump - including a writer, a publisher and two of Trump’s staff members - were shown classified information about a Pentagon plan of attack on an unspecified foreign country. The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information. WATCH: Trump pleads not guilty on federal charges of mishandling classified documents WASHINGTON (AP) - An audio recording from a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a “highly confidential” document with an interviewer appears to undermine his later claim that he didn’t have such documents, only magazine and newspaper clippings.
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