Former President Donald Trump continued to dismiss the leaked audio recording related to classified documents, calling it "just another hoax."
"I would say election interference more than anything else. It’s a disgrace that they can do it," Trump said in a Fox News interview Tuesday. "Everything was fine. We did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it."
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Trump blasted special counsel Jack Smith for the leak of an audio recording in which the former president is heard discussing a Department of Defense plan for an attack on Iran with papers rustling as if he were waving documents around.
He called the recording an "exoneration" rather than evidence to be used in the federal criminal case against him. Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in Miami on June 13 — 31 of them related to the "willful retention of national defense information," which is a violation of the Espionage Act.
The audio recording will likely be one of Smith's more solid pieces of evidence for those counts, as it revolves around classified documents relating to national defense. The former president is accused of retaining hundreds of classified documents that were marked top secret or confidential.
Trump has cited the Presidential Records Act and executive privilege for his alleged misconduct. In the audio recording, he appears to mention the classified items in his possession.
“See, as president, I could have declassified it. Now, I can’t. You know?” Trump can be heard saying. “Isn’t that interesting? It’s so cool.”
When asked by Fox News about the papers he discusses in the audio, Trump insisted it was all "absolutely fine."
"I said it very clearly. I had a whole desk full of lots of papers — mostly newspaper articles, copies of magazines, copies of different plans, copies of stories — having to do with many, many subjects, and what was said was absolutely fine and very perfectly. We did nothing wrong. This is a whole hoax," Trump said.
"My voice was fine. What did I say wrong on those recordings? I didn’t even see the recording. All I know is I did nothing wrong," the former president continued. "We had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. In fact, you hear the rustle of the paper. And nobody said that I did anything wrong other than the fake news, which is Fox too."
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He said he was unaware of other recordings that could surface but was not concerned.
"I don’t do things wrong. I do things right. I’m a legitimate person," Trump said.