In the latest news on the federal indictment of former President Trump, CNN claims it has obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting that the Biden DOJ is using as evidence that Trump showed classified documents to people without security clearances.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/06/26/breaking-cnn-obtains-trump-audio-critical-to-classified-documents-case-n767782

In the tape, Trump reportedly says, “Well, with [General Mark] Milley, let me see that. I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t it amazing—I have a big pile of papers, [and] this thing just came up, look. This was him. They presented this to me. This is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at him. This was him. This wasn’t done by me. This was him. All sorts of stuff. Pages long. Isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like a highly confidential secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.”

And at the end, he allegedly says, “See, as President, I could have declassified it. And now I can’t, you know.”

On the surface, it looks bad for Trump’s case. He told Bret Baier on Fox News that there were no documents at the meeting, just maybe some newspaper or magazine clippings.

Of course, this is just an audio tape, so there’s no way of knowing what he might actually have been holding, but I’m sure the Biden DOJ will bring in witnesses to claim it was a classified document, and if nobody wants to testify to that, they probably have ways of making them do it.

I’m sure Trump’s attorneys are not pleased. On the other hand, this does raise a lot of other issues, like: how did CNN obtain this tape? Did the DOJ leak it to them, the way CNN just coincidentally happened to be on the scene with cameras rolling minutes before the DOJ raided the home of Trump associate Roger Stone? If this cockamamie plan to invade Iran is so secret and so vital to American defense security that we must jail a former President for showing it to someone, why do we all know what's in it from media reports? And if it’s such a federal crime to leak confidential information, are they going to arrest whoever leaked this tape to CNN?

None of these questions will do much good for Trump in a court of law, and it would be a sad day if his propensity for blurting out whatever he's thinking what got him convicted by a coterie of professional liars. But it does shine even more light on what a mountain of double standards he’s facing.

Related: Judge Aileen Cannon issued a ruling on motions by the DOJ in the case against Trump, slapping most of them down. I won’t attempt to recap it all, since you can read it at this link.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/06/26/new-judge-denies-dojs-motion-for-special-conditions-of-release-and-to-seal-witness-list-in-trump-classified-docs-case-n767809

The major points were that we learned the DOJ has a list of 84 witnesses, and they wanted it sealed. One of the conditions on Trump is that he can’t talk to the witnesses, but they don’t want him to know who the witnesses are, which sounds like they’re trying to set him up to accuse him of violating the conditions, not that they would ever try to set up Trump! The judge wrote:

“The Government’s Motion does not explain why filing the list with the Court is necessary; it does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view; it does not explain why partial sealing, redaction, or means other than sealing are unavailable or unsatisfactory; and it does not specify the duration of any proposed seal.”

Why, it sounds as if the Biden DOJ is just making up laws as it goes along and applying them only to Trump and the people around him. Imagine that.

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