Watergate historian explains how Trump comments compare with Nixon tapes

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Trump appeared to admit he hadn't declassified the documents as president, in the recording obtained by CNN.

, could have a significant impact on the 2024 presidential election, with polling indicating the ex-president is the Republican frontrunner. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing, including rejecting allegations of an affair with Daniels.

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Washington Hilton on June 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C. A historian has compared Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal tapes to audio of Trump seeming to confess possessing"highly confidential" documents.

Speaking as a Watergate historian, there’s nowhere on thousands of hours of Nixon tapes where Nixon makes any comment as clear, as clearly illegal, and as clearly self-aware as this Trump tape.

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