It looks like one former staffer of Donald Trump is coming forward with some pretty brutal allegations against the former United States President.
According to a report from ABC News, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has written in a draft of his memoir claiming that Donald Trump left top-secret Iran war plans sitting on a couch at his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey while he was being interviewed by a ghostwriter.
“On the couch in front of the President’s desk, there’s a four-page report typed up by Mark Milley himself,” the draft reads. “It shows the general’s own plan to attack Iran, something he urged President Trump to do more than once during his presidency. … When President Trump found this plan in his old files this morning, he pointed out that if he had been able to make this declassified, it would probably ‘win his case.'”
What’s even more concerning for Trump is that Meadows also claims that he “could not recall” Trump ever declassifying any of the classified materials in his possession.
“Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of any ‘standing order’ from Trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the Oval Office, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News,” ABC News reported this week.
It’s pretty brutal news for Trump, and it led to quite a few reactions on social media.
I guess Meadows can afford his own attorney. https://t.co/bLpBB3Ggrl
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 20, 2023
But aren't Trump's lawyers going to argue in court that he could declassify documents just by thinking about it? https://t.co/aXXPi3bu0V
— Sean O'Neill (@SeanOhhhh) August 20, 2023
Of course he didn’t. https://t.co/Uy7o1Bfa06
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) August 20, 2023
Oh. You don’t say! https://t.co/aDlqNZ8P3H
— Just Jen (@xoxojmo) August 20, 2023
Oops. 😬 https://t.co/pfRU98FzUH
— Carbon Monoxide (unindicted)🏄♂️☮️ (@CarbonMonoxid17) August 20, 2023
Well, Trump did it through his magical thinking, so of course Meadows was not aware of it. 😉😉 https://t.co/A0dbPdnnWa
— VeloBouf (@VeloBouf) August 20, 2023
We’ll have to see what this means for Trump.
[ABC News]
