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CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the good shit.
When reading the post I thought it's one of those "We got the tapes/videos/mails, but won't upload them, but we got them and they are important, believe us" things.

[–] rDrDr 1 points 2 years ago

member when Rachel Maddow got his tax returns?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s so completely clear from the audio that he knows he’s sharing classified information and that he no longer has the power to declassify it - there’s no doubt whatever - but there will still be a giant number of people will say he’s innocent.

[–] stochasticity 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are indifferent to his guilt. They don't have to deny it.

[–] Omegamanthethird 1 points 2 years ago

I mean, isn't the story now just that it's "boring" and "who cares?"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember that every time you read a comment online saying Biden and Trump are the same, you’re looking at a pro-Trump psyop.

[–] stochasticity 7 points 2 years ago

I found a pro trump mastodon instance the other day and I have it bookmarked so I can check in every now and then. That shit is absolutely wild.

[–] outrageousmatter 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, thanks CNN for helping the feds with there job of winning the charges.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a tape already known to be part of the prosecution's evidence as far as I know.

[–] meldroc 3 points 2 years ago

Jack Smith's ace in the hole. Note that he didn't file charges about this specific dissemination - that way if Judge Loose Cannon causes too many problems, he can file these charges in New Jersey, out of her reach.

[–] outrageousmatter 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, yeah sounds like a pretty simple violation of something in his charges.

[–] what 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Trump to go to jail. Trump win in 2024 all but confirmed.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is no rule that says a person in prison can't run for office. Eugene V. Debs was in a West Virginia penitentiary when he lost the 1920 presidential election after all.

[–] Cruxifux 7 points 2 years ago

Eugene Debs was too awesome to ever win an American election though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure the guy getting the cokes has a security clearance, not a US one, but a security clearance is a security clearance, right?

[–] meldroc 3 points 2 years ago

He cleared that staffer with his mind!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He'll claim it's deep faked

[–] khepri 2 points 2 years ago

He already claimed it exonerates him, can't have it both ways.

[–] Clipboards 4 points 2 years ago

Doesn't get much more direct than this...