Following his indictment by special counsel Jack Smith last month, former president Donald Trump is now accused of mishandling several secret materials on hundreds of criminal counts.
However, he took time out of his increasingly hectic campaign schedule to address one of those documents that, after an audio recording of him discussing it with visitors was leaked to the media, thrust him in the center of a fiery new controversy.
Smith filed 37 accusations against Trump for handling top-secret secrets. President Joe Biden’s main opponent in the 2016 presidential race, Donald Trump, could spend years in prison if he is found guilty on all counts.
According to the indictment, Trump is accused of exchanging confidential documents twice with various people who lacked the required security clearances. Both incidents allegedly took place at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to the Department of Justice.
The network reported on June 2 that federal prosecutors had “obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.”
The charges “include willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations,” ABC News reported.
But in a lengthy interview with Bret Baier on Fox News on Monday, Trump claimed that he never showed anyone the top-secret American military strategy that is mentioned in the audio recording.
The Epoch Times reports:
Trump insisted that he never showed any classified military plan to attack Iran prepared by General Mark Milley, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump says he never ordered the plan.
However, he took time out of his increasingly hectic campaign schedule to address one of those documents that, after an audio recording of him discussing it with visitors was leaked to the media, thrust him in the center of a fiery new controversy.
Smith filed 37 accusations against Trump for handling top-secret secrets. President Joe Biden’s main opponent in the 2016 presidential race, Donald Trump, could spend years in prison if he is found guilty on all counts.
According to the indictment, Trump is accused of exchanging confidential documents twice with various people who lacked the required security clearances. Both incidents allegedly took place at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to the Department of Justice.
The network reported on June 2 that federal prosecutors had “obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.”
The charges “include willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations,” ABC News reported.
But in a lengthy interview with Bret Baier on Fox News on Monday, Trump claimed that he never showed anyone the top-secret American military strategy that is mentioned in the audio recording.
The Epoch Times reports:
Trump insisted that he never showed any classified military plan to attack Iran prepared by General Mark Milley, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump says he never ordered the plan.
