CNN aired a tape Monday of Donald Trump admitting to having classified material on Monday.
Anderson Cooper said, “We have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government’s case against Donald Trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he’s showing a highly classified document on US war plans against Iran with people not cleared to even know it exists, let alone what’s in it …
The recording was made two summers ago, July 2021 at the former president’s club in Bedminster, New Jersey. You will clearly hear the former president, as he is speaking to several people. According to the special council’s indictment, they include a writer working on Mark Meadows’ memoir, the publisher, and two of Trump’s staff members. The president was aware he was being recorded. It is the first time it is being played publicly.”
Trump said, “With Milley, let me see that. I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look.”
“This was him. They presented me this. This is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”
He told friends he had “all sorts of stuff, pages long, look. This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is, like, highly confidential, secret.”
“This is secret information. But look, look at this.”
Chris Christie recently criticized Donald Trump by mocking the number of fights the former president has had with his own former staffers and allies who he has since turned against.
The former New Jersey governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday — with the two discussing Trump’s fights with John Kelly and Bill Barr in the days following the former president’s indictment.
Barr noted that Trump is in serious legal trouble over his mishandling of government secrets, while Kelly claimed that Trump is “scared sh*tless” despite all of his ex-boss’ public bravado.
Asked for his thoughts on Trump lashing out, Christie snorted “I stood on the stage in 2016 and heard Donald Trump say he would only hire the very, very best people and would know how to manage them.”
Christie went on to list Rex Tillerson, James Mattis and other Trump administration officials, noting how Trump heaped praise on all of them once upon a time, just to rail against them all when they eventually raised criticisms of Trump.
Look, either Donald Trump — if you believe what he said when they left, that means he didn’t pick the very best people and doesn’t know how to pick personnel. If you believe what he said about them in the beginning — the great stuff — then this guy is the worst manager in the history of the American presidency. Either way, Republicans should listen to what he says. He’s a petulant child when someone disagrees with him…If you disagree with Donald Trump, the petulant child comes out and he calls you names.
