Trump regretted not declassifying retained military document in recording

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Federal prosecutors have obtained audio in which the former president acknowledged he retained a classified paper on IranFederal prosecutors obtained audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting where Donald Trump suggested he should have declassified a military document about Iran he admitted retaining, according to people familiar with the criminal investigation into his retention of national security papers.
26% : Trump believed that the document outlining the report to attack Iran would undercut Milley's reported assertions, though the report was actually written earlier in the Trump administration when Joseph Dunford was chairman of the joint chiefs, a person familiar with the document said.
20% : But the July 2021 meeting that was recorded came shortly after Trump was incensed about news reports that Milley had urged him not to attack Iran in the final weeks of his presidency.
19% : In his book titled A Chief's Chief, Meadows recounts how Trump once recalled a four-page report produced by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley that contained his plan to attack Iran, though it is unclear if that was the same meeting attended by his writers.

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