Former President Donald Trump’s later assertion that he simply had magazine and newspaper clippings appears to be contradicted by an audio recording of a meeting in which he talks about a “highly confidential” document with an interviewer.

The audio tape is a key piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s charge of President Trump for the improper handling of confidential material. Trump conducted the interview in July 2021 at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club for writers of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows’ memoir.