Ex-Trump Officials Question Existence Of Iran Document In Leaked Audio
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Leaked audio of Donald Trump is being used to attack him over his handling of classified information.
This has been called the “smoking gun” against Trump by some.
However, the document in the audio is not actually part of the indictment against Donald Trump.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37-count federal indictment of former President Donald Trump does not charge him over holding an alleged document relating to a planned attack on Iran, according to a report from CBS News. The report comes a little under 24 hours after CNN published leaked audio of a conversation between Trump and guests at his Bedminster golf course.
The audio recording had been billed as a “smoking gun” by Democrats, left-wing legal analysts and corporate media outlets for weeks prior to its release Monday night.
Trump has been accused of showing guests a classified document and “waving it around” despite noting that he didn’t declassify it.
In the audio only snippet leaked to CNN, Trump can be heard ruffling through some papers while disparaging General Mark Milley. “This was him, can you believe this?” Trump can be heard saying.
Former officials of Donald Trump’s administration are now questioning whether this document existed at all.
Veterans of former President Donald Trump’s administration have suggested that a secret plan of attack against Iran that he allegedly showed off in the summer of 2021 never actually existed.
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But Ric Grenell, who served as Trump’s acting director of national intelligence in early 2020, and Kash Patel, former chief of staff to Trump’s last acting secretary of defense, told The Post they found it suspicious that the document was not listed among the 31 sensitive papers Trump was actually charged with retaining.
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“Without getting into grand jury details, basically, I was like, ‘OK, show me the document you guys are referring to,’” Patel told The Post. “And they were like, ‘No, you should know which document.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re the government, you show me.’ [Then prosecutors said,] ‘Oh, we don’t have it.’”
“I’ve been through that game with these guys before. And it doesn’t surprise me that they don’t have it,” he added.
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