Ex-President Donald Trump heard on tape discussing secret documents – US media 

American media has obtained an audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping secret US documents after leaving the White House. 

In the recording, the former president – who is running for the presidency in 2024, is heard riffling through papers and saying: “This is highly confidential.” 

Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling sensitive files. 

CNN was amongst the first to publish the two-minute clip and said it comes from a July 2021 interview that Trump gave with people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. 

Trump is heard in the recording saying “these are the papers” and referring to them as “highly confidential.”