Trump's "Confidential Incident" Key Recording Exposure Storm | Confidential | Recording
On the 26th, American media exposed a two minute recording, calling it key evidence of the "classified scandal" involving former Republican President Donald Trump.
Trump has been charged 37 federal criminal charges for mishandling confidential documents during his resignation and subsequently obstructing document retrieval, of which 31 are related to his illegal possession of 31 confidential documents. Trump refused to plead guilty to all charges.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith listed a recorded evidence in the indictment released earlier this month, alleging that the recording showed Trump showing off a classified defense plan to attack Iran at a golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey in July 2021.
On the 26th, CNN was the first to expose the recording and reported that the conversation was between Trump and his two staff members, as well as the writer and publisher who was writing a memoir for Trump's White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. At that time, Trump intended to clarify a report in The New Yorker that he had a dispute with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, over attacking Iran, and Milley was concerned that Trump might launch a full-scale attack.
Trump said in the recording that it was the military who formulated the attack plan and reported it to him. It was Miley, not him, who "wanted to attack Iran." "These are the documents." "When I was the president, I could have decrypted them, but now I can't... But this is still a secret... You may hardly believe me, but now you believe me.". You can hear the sound of flipping through paper during the recording.
The report suggests that the evidence is expected to confirm Trump's clear knowledge of his possession of confidential documents, rather than his insistence that "all documents taken from the White House have been declassified.". This recording is also expected to refute Trump's statement in an interview with Fox News that what he was presenting to people at the time was not a "certain document", but a large amount of information about Iran in newspapers and magazines.
According to the latest report from CNN, the Office of the Special Prosecutor declined to comment.
In addition, the presiding judge of the "Confidential Incident" case, Erin Cannon, made multiple rulings on the 26th, including setting the pre-trial meeting date for the case to July 14th, mainly discussing how to handle confidential materials in accordance with the Confidential Information Procedure Law.
Cannon also ruled that Trump's defense lawyer should respond to the prosecution's request to postpone the official hearing to December 11th before July 6th. Cannon set the hearing date for August 14th on the 20th, but special prosecutor Smith requested a postponement of the hearing on the 23rd. According to The Washington Post, the schedule is relatively tight for both August and December hearings, as defense lawyers have not yet obtained the confidential authority to participate in the case.
