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.

    • MustrumR
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      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
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        11 year ago

        member when Rachel Maddow got his tax returns?

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    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
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      111 year ago

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

      • Omega
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        11 year ago

        I mean, isn’t the story now just that it’s “boring” and “who cares?”

  • MisterMoo
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    231 year ago

    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
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      71 year 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.

  • outrageousmatterM
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    191 year ago

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

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

      • Meldroc
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        31 year 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.

      • outrageousmatterM
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        21 year ago

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

  • @what
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    Trump to go to jail. Trump win in 2024 all but confirmed.

    • @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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      111 year ago

      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
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        71 year ago

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

  • BasicTraveler
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    71 year ago

    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
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      31 year ago

      He cleared that staffer with his mind!

  • @Clipboards
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    41 year ago

    Doesn’t get much more direct than this…

    • @khepri
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      21 year ago

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