Audio Emerges With New Details of Trump’s 2021 Conversation About Classified Documents

‘There was nothing to declassify,’ the 45th president says, ‘These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.’

AP/Mary Altaffer, file
President Trump at a rally at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, September 3, 2022. AP/Mary Altaffer, file

An audio recording that includes new details from a 2021 meeting at which President Trump, then out of office, discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify has been released.

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