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In the two-minute audio, Mr Trump is heard appearing to indicate that he is holding onto a secret military document about Iran.
“Well, with Milley, uh, let me see that, I’ll show you an example,” he says.
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him,” he says as the noise of papers rustling is heard in the background.
“They presented me this – this is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at some, this was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff – pages long, look.”
“Wait a minute, let’s see here. I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret,” he says, to laughter from people inside the room.
“This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me. As president I could have declassified, but now I can’t.”
Mr Trump and the meeting participants go on to joke that Hillary Clinton would “print” out the documents, joking about her “private emails”.
“Hillary would print that out all the time, you know. Her private emails,” one staffer is heard saying.
“No, she’d send it to Anthony Weiner,” Mr Trump replies, in reference to Ms Clinton’s use of a private email server. The former secretary of state has never been charged with a crime.
they got him, dead to rights