Leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump slammed the claims in the federal indictment that he showed a secret document to other people, saying there were “articles.”
During a Monday interview on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Trump blasted the claims in the indictment saying, “These were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.”
He added that while he couldn’t declassify things while he was out of office, “There was nothing to declassify.”
“It wasn’t a document. I had lots of paper. I had copies of newspaper articles. I had copies of magazines,” Trump said.
He added:
“When I said that I couldn’t declassify it now, that’s because I wasn’t President. I never made any bones about that.”
“When I’m not President, I can’t declassify. … But that wasn’t a document. Bret, there was no document,” Trump said.
“That was a massive amount of papers and everything else, talking about Iran and other things,” he added.
“And it may have been held up, or it may not. But that was not a document,” Trump continued.
“I didn’t have a document per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.”
Trump also stated earlier in the interview that he didn’t have any Iran war plans “that I know of. But everything was declassified.”
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The news comes after Biden’s Justice Department issued another court filing blocking Trump from disclosing classified documents and evidence that will be shared with his lawyers.
As The Daily Fetched reported, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart sided with Biden’s “weaponized” DOJ and issued a protective order barring Trump from disclosing certain evidence in Jack Smith’s politically motivated classified documents case.
Trump will also have limited access to the documents.
“The Discovery Materials, along with any information derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform, without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the Court,” Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said in the protective order.
“Defendants shall only have access to Discovery Materials under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel’s staff.” Reinhart continued.
“Defendants shall not retain copies of Discovery Material,” Reinhart added.
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