Trump Tells Fox They're ‘Fake News’ While Defending Leaked Recording

Telling Fox News that he did “nothing wrong” in response to the leaked recording of him waving around “highly confidential” documents he admittedly did not declassify, the ex-president grumbled on Tuesday that the conservative cable giant was “fake news.”

CNN obtained an audio tape of a 2021 meeting between Trump and several people working on the memoir of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff. In the recording, which matches up with evidence included in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump for mishandling classified documents, the ex-president indicated he was in possession of secret defense documents about an Iran attack plan.

“These are the papers,” Trump said on the tape. “See, as president, I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

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