on the tape not only is referring to a classified document that he says he has in his possession, but he also is making clear that he is unhappy that he can t share it more widely, that he realized that it is classified and that he didn t declassify it when he was president, all of the things that would stack up in a very important possible indication the justice department could be looking at bringing against the former president. unprecedented situation. the reason he was talking about it, because he was mad at the time in july 2021 about a story in the new yorker that said that he had to be stopped by the pentagon and other viadvisers including mark milley to execute a plan to bomb iran. and trump is trying to show the people in the room that that is not the case, that he actually would be undermining what milley
the sound. you could hear the sound on the tape referring to a document, waving it around. now, cnn has not listened to this audio at this point. but multiple sources have described to us and have told us that it is quite significant in the justice department investigation. we know that they have the audio, they ve also been asking people about it, they ve talked to witnesses they brought in people for the grand jury testimony. all working towards possible case. which they haven t brought yet against donald trump but that they could. and one of the things in the audiotape that makes it so significant is that donald trump, on the tape, is not only referring to a classified document that he says he has in his possession, but he also is making clear that he is unhappy that he can t share it more widely. that he has realized that it is classified and that he didn t declassify it when it was president. all of the things that would stuck up in a very important
hypocrite. they thought he was being the funniest guy in the world. when sean hannity s show had trump and he said, i can declassify things by thinking about it, suckers are born every they, and republicans repeat the talking points. he lies and says at the cnn town hall, i can do whatever i wanted to do with it. i declassify it if i want to. we find out with this audio recording, just like the audio recording in georgia, that donald trump is in legal hot water. even trump knows in these recordings, and it goes straight to intent, doesn t it, that he can t declassify just by thinking about it. he didn t declassify just by thinking about it. in fact, he knew he was in possession of a classified document that he improperly, illegally took from the white house. yeah, now, it turns out that there are tapes.
and if you are a lawyer, you are not immune from being held accountable for crimes. the new york times is separately reporting the justice department also scrutinizing kash patel. consider this claim. on the way out of the white house he issued further declassifification orders, declassifying documents. president trump as a sitting president is a unilateral authority for declassification. he can stand over a set of documents and say, these are now declassified. presidents do have unilateral declassification authority. it s part of their military powers. but just because you have it doesn t mean you can backdate it. why not? you don t need a lawyer to be able to understand that. you ain t president anymore. the issue according to the doj and magistrate judge who approved the search of mar-a-lago in the first place is that he didn t declassify most of potentially all of this