Trump was recorded acknowledging he kept classified doc after leaving White House

A recording of former President Donald Trump shows him acknowledging a document he kept after leaving the White House was classified, NBC News reported Thursday, citing a source directly familiar with the matter.

Trump’s remarks on that tape, recorded in 2021, indicate the document was related to Iran, NBC reported.

The recording was obtained by the special counsel’s office leading a criminal investigation into the classified documents and other presidential records that were stored in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida after he left the White House in January 2021. By law, such records must be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration.

The recording was played during grand jury testimony, the source told NBC. The comments came more than a year before the FBI raided Trump’s Florida home to search for the documents.