Trump says Bedminster audio was leaked to hurt 2024 bid

Donald Trump is fuming as the political world reacts to an audio recording in which the former president seems to display secret Pentagon information about Iran in a 2021 meeting — an episode critical to special counsel Jack Smith’s case against him.

The recording, obtained by CNN, depicts Mr. Trump saying, “These are the papers,” in a July 2021 interview the ex-president gave to people working on a book about former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The quote is not in the indictment and seems to undercut Mr. Trump’s assertion in a recent Fox News interview that he wasn’t holding a sensitive document about military plans to attack Iran.

“It may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document, per se. There was nothing to declassify,” Mr. Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”