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The Longer They Wait to Indict Donald Trump, the Harder It Gets

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Trump's Declassification of a Pentagon Document

CNN has reported that federal prosecutors have in their hands an audio recording from a summer 2021 meeting where Trump acknowledges he held on to a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran. This obviously goes against everything he says where he's like, well, I declassified it immediately. You know, he claims that every classified document he took was automatically declassified, which was never the case. But this tends to show that even he knows that because apparently the comments on this tape show that he wanted to share the meeting, but that he was aware of the limitations on his ability to declassify records. So yeah, we're still waiting on Jack Smith to file charges. But at a certain point

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