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Trump Showed Classified Map to Campaign Aide

June 29, 2023 at 7:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“One of the top advisers on Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is among the individuals identified but not named by special counsel Jack Smith in his indictment against the former president for allegedly mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them,” ABC News reports.

“Susie Wiles, one of Trump’s most trusted advisers leading his second reelection effort, is the individual singled out in Smith’s indictment as the ‘PAC Representative’ who Trump is alleged to have shown a classified map to in August or September of 2021, sources said.”

“Trump, in the indictment, is alleged to have shown the classified map of an unidentified country to Wiles while discussing a military operation that Trump said ‘was not going well,’ while adding that he “should not be showing the map” to her and ‘not to get too close.’”

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