Are the walls closing in? Maybe. Maybe not. There are a lot of Democrats, Never Trumpers, and toffee-nosed Republicans who would love nothing more than to have the walls close in, the jail bars close and Donald Trump never to be heard of or written about again. I kind of wanted to raise their hopes with that title. It is true that CNN has obtained a two-minute tape of Trump discussing documents and their status as classified, I think. Just so you know, I still intend to vote Trump in the Republican Primary, because I no longer give a farthing if he violated every standard of decency known to the Western world.

The tape recording, first played on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, was apparently made during a 2021 meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey club. The discussion apparently was during research for Mark Meadow’s book, The Chief’s Chief. This tape, and possibly more of them, has been discussed as evidence obtained by Persecutor Jack Smith, since early June, but interesting it was leaked to CNN. We are not surprised by the Trump Indictment or the leak to CNN. Here is the two-minute recording:

BREAKING.

Jack Smith and DOJ just leaked the Trump audio tape to CNN.

This is what DOJ thinks is their smoking gun.

Trump responded last week and said he did NOT show secret documents.pic.twitter.com/IYtg07kikH

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 27, 2023

Here is a sort of transcript of the CNN tape:

“Like when Milley is talking about, ‘Oh you’re going to try to do a coup.’ No, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in,” the staffer says, according to the audio.
The next part of the conversation is mostly included in the indictment, though the audio makes clear there are papers shuffling as Trump tells those in attendance he has an example to show.
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran, Isn’t it amazing?” Trump says as the sound of papers shuffling can be heard. “I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this – this is off the record but – they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”
The indictment includes ellipses where the recording obtained by CNN shows where Trump and his aide begin talking about Clinton’s emails and Weiner, whose laptop caused the FBI to briefly re-open its investigation into her handling of classified information in the days before the 2016 election she lost to Trump.
Trump then returns to the Iran document, according to the audio recording and indictment transcript.
“I was just thinking, because we were talking about it. And you know, he said, ‘He wanted to attack Iran, and what…,’ ” Trump says.
“These are the papers,” Trump continues, according to the audio file.
“This was done by the military and given to me,” Trump continues, before noting that the document remained classified.
“See as president I could have declassified it,” Trump says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
“Isn’t that interesting,” Trump says.
While that’s the last line included in the indictment, the audio recording obtained by CNN includes several additional lines from the conversation:
Trump: “It’s so cool. I mean, it’s so, look, her and I, and you probably almost didn’t believe me, but now you believe me.”
Writer: “No, I believed you.”
Trump: “It’s incredible, right?”
Writer: “No, they never met a war they didn’t want.”
Trump: “Hey, bring some, uh, bring some Cokes in please.”

I could argue that we do not know the provenance or chain of custody for this tape, but it sounds so Trumpian. Especially the last line about getting some Cokes. It also sounds real in terms of the puffing that interns or research assistant type people do around the Big Boss, male or female. They all try to flatter and puff the boss. But, this part sounds like a joke. Like they were doing a wink wink thing:

“These are the papers,” Trump continues, according to the audio file.
“This was done by the military and given to me,” Trump continues, before noting that the document remained classified.
“See as president I could have declassified it,” Trump says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

That sounds like Trump joking, just like when he asked Russia to investigate Clinton’s Emails, remember?

Trump was being sarcastic and flippant. The elitist prigs who hate Trump, who get violently ill at the sight or sound of him have no sense of humor or of the absurd. S.E. Cupp is one of those elitist prigs:

JUST IN: Lordy There Are MORE Tapes According To New Filing In Trump Criminal Case https://t.co/tIqbqqh9tI via @mediaite

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 22, 2023

The only reason any of these twats listen to Jack Smith, the Grand Inquisitor of the Uniparty, is because he is on their side.

Are the walls closing in mebbe. The Uniparty has worked so hard for nearly eight years, they ought to get something, but I pray that they get their hands caught in the mousetrap again and again and again. I’m evil like that.

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