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Trump Spokesperson Doesn’t Know What His Classified Docs Defense Is<!-- wp:html --><p>Fox News</p> <p>Alina Habba, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, on Tuesday struggled to articulate what the former president’s current defense is regarding a leaked <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-audio-shows-donald-trump-chatting-about-secret-docs-he-could-have-declassified-cnn-report-says?ref=scroll">audio tape </a>which appears to capture the moment he shared a document he called “highly confidential” and which he said contained “secret information” with others at his Bedminster Golf Club.</p> <p>Trump, who <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/unsealed-trump-indictment-says-he-stored-classified-docs-in-a-shower-at-mar-a-lago">has been indicted</a> for willful retention of national defense information (among other crimes), also said of the document, “See, as president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t.”</p> <p>Last September, Trump <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-tells-fox-news-host-sean-hannity-he-can-declassify-docs-just-by-thinking-about-it">claimed</a> in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that he “declassified everything.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-spokesperson-alina-habba-doesnt-know-what-his-classified-docs-defense-is">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Alina Habba, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, on Tuesday struggled to articulate what the former president’s current defense is regarding a leaked audio tape which appears to capture the moment he shared a document he called “highly confidential” and which he said contained “secret information” with others at his Bedminster Golf Club.

Trump, who has been indicted for willful retention of national defense information (among other crimes), also said of the document, “See, as president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t.”

Last September, Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that he “declassified everything.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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