SCOTT OLSON / Getty Images via AFP Donald Trump, who spoke of “heinous abuse of power” after being charged in mid-June by a federal court in Miami, totally denied having kept classified documents after his departure from the White House.
SCOTT OLSON / Getty Images via AFP
Donald Trump, who spoke of “heinous abuse of power” after being charged in mid-June by a federal court in Miami, totally denied having kept classified documents after his departure from the White House.
UNITED STATES – The 45th President of the United States probably compromised himself. In a recorded conversation published this Monday, June 26 by CNN, Donald Trump evokes classified plans to attack Iran that he would have kept at home, while the former American president is already indicted for his alleged negligent management of secrets of State after leaving the White House.
According to the American news channel, it is“a conversation in July 2021, shortly after leaving office, during which former President Donald Trump admitted to keeping a confidential Pentagon document relating to a potential attack on Iran”.
“Here are the papers”Donald Trump says in the recording, talking about the Pentagon’s attack plans to advisers.
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“It was made by the army and given to me”he explains. “As president, I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but it’s still a secret.”.
“Now we have a problem”points out an adviser. “How interesting”replies Donald Trump.
A revelation that is timely for the detractors of the former tenant of the White House. After pleading not guilty, Donald Trump, in power from 2017 to 2021, was charged in mid-June by a federal court in Miami. The indictment, which also mentions part of the recording broadcast by CNN, brought 37 charges against Trump. He then spoke of“heinous abuse of power”denying having kept classified documents.
The 2024 election is slipping away
This sets the stage for a historic and potentially very damaging trial for his campaign for the 2024 US presidential election.
He is accused of endangering the security of the United States by keeping confidential documents, including military plans or information on nuclear weapons, in a bathroom or storage room of his luxury residence in Mar-a-Lago, in Florida.
He is also accused of having refused to return these documents despite court injunctions, which led to him being charged for “unlawful retention of national security information”but also “obstruction of justice” et “false testimony”.
Donald Trump had already been charged in early April by New York State justice for several accounting frauds in connection with a payment made before the 2016 presidential election to silence an X film actress, who says she was his mistress.
He has not yet finished with legal problems. A Georgia prosecutor must announce by September the result of her investigation into the pressure he allegedly exerted to try to change the result of the 2020 presidential election. Especially since a special prosecutor is investigating his role in parallel in the assault on the Capitol, January 6, 2021.
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2023-06-27 10:37:45
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