Since the Justice Department released its 37-count indictment against Donald Trump earlier this month, the consensus has been that the ex-president is legally f--ked. “If even half of it is true,” former attorney general Bill Barr said in an interview, “then he’s toast.” Of the many incredibly damning pieces of evidence raised by prosecutors, one in particular stood out: a recording of Trump telling a bunch of people, who did not have security clearance, about a plan to attack another country that he claims to have “just found” in a “big pile of papers,” and, per the indictment, saying things like “it is, like, highly confidential."
Asked by Fox News’ Brett Baier about the seemingly smoking-gun-esque recording in an interview last week, Trump predictably insisted it was much ado about nothing, saying: “There was no document.… There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.”
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