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Politics
Gabriella Ferrigine

Trump: Tape is "actually an exoneration"

Former President Donald Trump bizarrely insisted on Monday that a bombshell leaked audio that experts have called "damning" was actually an "exoneration." 

The recording, which was cited last month as part of Trump's 37-count criminal indictment over his handling of national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, ostensibly reveals the ex-president bragging about possessing a secret document that he could not show others because he did not declassify it. 

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