reporter asked donald trump if he was concerned about the audio recording, to which donald trump replied, my voice was fine. it s not really what prosecutors are going to be focusing on. here is donald trump s response to that question about being, possibly concerned about the audio recording. my voice was fine. what did i say wrong in those recordings? i didn t even see the recording. all i know is i did nothing wrong. we had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. in fact you could hear the russell of the paper. yes, we do. we hear the rustling of the paper. you are about to hear the russell of that paper again when we play you the full two minutes, and you will hear donald trump, apparently showing classified documents to
papers, newspapers, copies of his speech, print outs of articles, sat. he grabbed some from the pile and placed them in front of him, moving them around as he spoke, and offering up a bicycle reenactment of what he said was occurring on the audiotape. if donald trump takes the witness stand in his own defense, he will be invited, by special prosecutor jack smith, to perform that physical reenactment on the witness stand. when reporters asked donald trump about his use of the word plan, donald trump said, did i use the word plans? what i m referring to is magazines, newspapers, plans of buildings, i had plans of buildings. you know building plans? i had plans of a golf course. i didn t have a classified document. there was no classified document on my desk. when donald trump was asked if
donald trump s fourth and final white house chief of staff. as you listen once again with donald trump s newest lines of defense in mind, to the two minute audio recording, listen for the bravado. listen for the possibility that he is just lying about the papers that he is playing with, and not showing to the people he is speaking to. when donald trump says they presented me this, this is off the record, but they presented me this. think about what this could be. building plans? when donald trump says, it is like highly confidential, and everyone laughs and he says this is secret information. what are those people looking at one donald trump says this is secret information? building plans? when you hear donald trump say he said he wanted to attack iran, and said these are the
them, but i had no documents. i didn t have any documents. donald trump s newest defense, for what you are about to hear on this recording, what it sounds like he is showing the iran war plan, in specificity, including multiple pages of it, to the people around him, is, i was lying, i did not have the iran war plan with me. i did not have the iran war plan in my hands. i was just bragging about it. in other words, the trump defense is he was lying about the papers that you can hear him shuffling, and handling on the audio recording. we are reporting, the discussions with reporters on his plane, donald trump said, i just held up a whole pile of my desk is loaded up with papers. i have papers from 45 different things. at one point trump gestured to the seat next to him on the plane, where a stack of various