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Friday, April 18, 2025

Report: Smoking Gun Uncovered, Trump in Tape Transcript Admitted He Didn’t Declassify “Secret Information…Look, look at this”

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You know that the 7 charge indictment brought against Donald Trump last night is not about any of the terrible things while in office.

No, the charges stem from him removing classified documents from the White House and storing them at Mar-a-Lago after he lost the 2020 election.

Trump insisted that all the documents he had in his possession were “declassified.”

But now Paula Reid on CNN has discovered a transcript of a 2021 tape recording in which Trump admits he didn’t declassify “secret” military information. It’s the smoking gun in this absurd saga that will lead to his conviction and imprisonment.

“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says, according to the transcript.

The bloviating buffoon is showing the document to people in his office. He says, according to CNN, “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me.”

Congrats to Paula Reid, who valiantly sat through the pandemic in the press room for CBS News and was not appreciated by them.

Read her story at cnn.com

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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