Somehow CNN got a hold of a transcript of the previously reported July 2021 audio of fat former President Trump telling Mark Meadows’ ghostwriters that he could have declassified a military planning document for an attack on Iran, further increasing the importance of jury nullification or winning in 2024 as part of the twice-impeached loser’s legal strategy.

“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump said to the ghostwriters apparently while holding the actual document (unless he was bluffing, which we can’t entirely rule out). “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this… This was done by the military and given to me,” he actually fucking said to these people while a minion recorded it. Nixon must be spinning in his grave.

“Well, with Milley – uh, let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this – this is off the record, but – they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at some. This was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff – pages long, look. Wait a minute, let’s see here. I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump said, as at the time, he had an axe to grind with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley over a July 15, 2021 New Yorker article about how Milley worked to prevent the Orange Ayatollah from ordering an attack on Iran after losing the election.