WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors have a 2021 audio recording of former President Donald Trump acknowledging he stored a categorized Pentagon doc a couple of attainable assault on Iran after leaving the White Home, CNN reported on Wednesday.
CNN didn’t take heed to the recording however cited unidentified a number of sources describing it. Reuters was not capable of verify the report.
The recording exhibits Trump, who’s searching for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, understood he retained categorized materials after he left the White Home in 2021, in keeping with the cable tv community.
Trump’s remarks indicated he wish to share the knowledge however was conscious of the constraints on his capacity to declassify paperwork after leaving workplace, two sources instructed CNN.
A Trump consultant didn’t instantly return a request for remark. Peter Carr, the spokesman for Particular Counsel Jack Smith’s workplace on the Justice Division, additionally didn’t instantly remark.
Smith is investigating Trump’s dealing with of categorized paperwork, in addition to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election Trump misplaced to Democrat Joe Biden.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Kanishka Singh; modifying by Tim Ahmann)