Trump actually said 'Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this' on a recording that confirms he kept classified documents after leaving the White House: Report

• CNN obtained a transcript of a recording of Donald Trump talking about a classified document he kept after leaving the White House.
• "Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me."

CNN on Friday reported that it has a transcript of a recording of former President Donald Trump in 2021 discussing a secret military document that he'd kept after leaving office. "Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this," Trump actually said on the recording. "This was done by the military and given to me."

Trump was discussing a classified Pentagon document about attacking Iran, according to CNN.

Based on the transcript, Trump may have kept the document and shown it to an associate as a sort of insurance policy against anyone who might cross or criticize him. In this case, the antagonist was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, whose concerns about Trump attacking Iran had just been revealed in a New Yorker story.

"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," Trump said, according to the transcript. "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."

Trump was indicted by the Department of Justice Thursday night on seven counts related to his mishandling of classified documents. It's his second time being indicted this year. Both facing federal charges and being indicted twice are historic firsts for a former president.