After airing a portion of a leaked audio recording purporting to show former President Donald Trump admitting to not declassifying information he was sharing with people without the proper security clearance, the attention in some circles turned to how CNN acquired the tapes. Charlie Kirk is skeptical of the motives of the network.
During The Charlie Kirk Show Tuesday, the Turning Point USA founder shared that — unlike other conservative commentators — he believes there are some damaging aspects of the tapes, but questioned how CNN came into possession of them.
“There’s one part that is going to be the most difficult for President Trump’s legal team to overcome (versus) Jack Smith, where he said ‘You see I can’t declassify it now, but I could have when I was president’,” said Kirk. “This is supposedly a bombshell story. We do not know how CNN obtained this information.
“There’s only a couple of potential explanations. It could be leaked by Jack Smith, or it could be leaked by one of the writers on Mark Meadows’s team, one of the two. And again, this is a selective edit designed to paint a narrative by somebody. We know that the Department of Justice loves to leak. They’re likely doing this leak as a way to try to muddy up the jury pool in Florida.”
