Trump says it was just ‘bravado’ when he claimed having Iran attack plan in caught-on-tape Bedminster meeting

Former President Donald Trump claims he was only spouting “bravado” and wasn’t actually showing off “highly classified” plans to attack Iran in a caught-on-tape 2021 meeting with book researchers at his New Jersey golf resort.

Floating the latest in a string of excuses, Trump effectively said he was lying during the audiotaped chat at his Bedminister golf resort.

The truth, Trump claimed, was that he was only shuffling newspaper clippings and resort blueprints — even though the recording caught him claiming to have top secret stuff.

“I would say it’s bravado,” he told ABC News. “If you want to know the truth, it was bravado. I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about, but I have no documents. I didn’t have any documents.”

Trump asserted that he only wanted people to think that the papers were classified to drive home a point about the danger of war with Iran.

“I’d hold them up and I said: ‘You can’t let this stuff happen.’” Trump said. “But that was not documents and it wasn’t classified.”

The former president even ruffled through a stack of documents on his desk in front of reporters.