Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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