Disgraced former President Trump told a Semafor reporter he was holding up a random piece of non-classified paper to impress Mark Meadows’s ghostwriters when he was recorded in July 2021 telling them that the document he had in his hand was “confidential” and “secret.”
“I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump told Semafor and ABC News reporters. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents. I just held up a whole pile of – my desk is loaded up with papers. I have papers from 25 different things,” the twice-impeached loser continued.
So in essence Trump is using his reputation for dishonesty as a defense and “coming clean” with a new lie. Nice of him to give his fanboys something to work with here after a rough 24 hours for them.