{"id":1958054,"date":"2023-06-27T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-goes-after-jack-smith-following-audio-leak-concerning-classified-documents\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:20:58","slug":"donald-trump-goes-after-jack-smith-following-audio-leak-concerning-classified-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-goes-after-jack-smith-following-audio-leak-concerning-classified-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump targets Jack Smith over leaked audio on classified documents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-goes-after-jack-smith-following-audio-leak-concerning-classified-documents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump Slams Special Counsel Jack Smith as &#8220;Deranged&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-pushes-investigation-into-kerry-for-leaking-secrets-to-iran\/\" title=\"Pompeo Pushes Investigation Into Kerry for Leaking Secrets to Iran\">leaked audio recording<\/a>, former President Donald Trump can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-goes-after-jack-smith-following-audio-leak-concerning-classified-documents\/\" title=\"Trump targets Jack Smith over leaked audio on classified documents.\">heard discussing classified documents<\/a>, causing him to criticize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a> Jack Smith as &#8220;deranged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the audio, which surfaced on Monday, Trump is heard discussing a Department of Defense plan for an attack on Iran. The sound of papers rustling suggests that he may have been waving documents around. While knowledge of this meeting in 2021 was already public, the leaked audio provides additional context to Smith&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<h3>California Budget Deal: Newsom Celebrates Agreement with State Legislature<\/h3>\n<p>On Truth Social, Trump referred to the Presidential Records Act as his justification for keeping hundreds of classified documents at his private residence, a defense he has used in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could somebody please explain to the deranged, Trump-hating Jack Smith, his family, and his friends that, as President of the United States, I am subject to the Presidential Records Act, as affirmed by the Clinton Socks case, not by this psychos&#8217; fantasy of the never-used-before Espionage Act of 1917,&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump then shifted his focus to President Joe Biden, who is also under investigation by a special counsel for his handling of classified documents and facing scrutiny from the House GOP regarding his financial ties to foreign companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Smith&#8217; should be looking at crooked Joe Biden and all of the crimes that he has perpetrated on the American public, including the millions and millions of dollars he extorted from foreign countries!&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was indicted on 37 charges in Miami on June 13, with 31 of them related to the &#8220;willful retention of national defense information,&#8221; a violation of the Espionage Act.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked audio recording is expected to serve as significant evidence for these charges, as Trump can be heard discussing a piece of paper related to defense plans concerning Iran. He describes the information as &#8220;highly confidential&#8221; and emphasizes its secrecy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to the leak late Monday night, criticizing the Justice Department and FBI for the &#8220;illegally leaked&#8221; and &#8220;spun&#8221; tape. He argues that the tape actually serves as an exoneration, contrary to what they want people to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized special counsel Jack Smith as &#8220;deranged&#8221; following the leak of an audio recording. The recording allegedly revealed Trump discussing classified documents, including a Department of Defense strategy for an Iran attack. The audio, leaked on Monday, featured Trump&#8217;s voice accompanied by the sound of papers rustling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1958055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}