Caught on tape AGAIN: Audio leaks 'reveal President Trump encouraged wealthy golf club members to stick around while he interviewed cabinet picks'
- President Donald Trump reportedly offered his guests at his New Jersey golf club the chance to see who he was interviewing for his administration in November
- Heard telling members in the unverified audio: 'We’re going to be interviewing everybody — Treasury, we’re going to be interviewing Secretary of State'
- Last week, Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe were pictured talking on phones in public after North Korea's missile test last Saturday
- Two leaders were having dinner in dining room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort
- Photos taken by a member of the public show aides using cellphone camera light to help Trump and Abe read documents in dimly lit room
- It prompted concerns given phones could have the potential to be easily hacked
- The White House said no classified material was discussed at the dinner table
- Trump was briefed before and after in a secure setting, according to Sean Spicer
President Donald Trump was allegedly caught on tape offering the guests at his New Jersey club the chance to see who he was interviewing for his administration
President Donald Trump has allegedly been caught on tape offering his guests the chance to of gawk at the people he was interviewing for his cabinet.
In the unverified audio leaked to Politico, Trump shows off to the members of Trump National Golf Club by saying: 'We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything.
'You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun.
'We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government.'
The footage was apparently recorded on November 18, just over a week after Trump won the election.
He allegedly said: 'We’re going to be interviewing everybody — Treasury, we’re going to be interviewing Secretary of State.'
'We have everybody coming in — if you want to come around, it’s going to be unbelievable … so you might want to come along.'
'You are the special people,' he told the crowd of 100.
It's not the first time Trump has been caught up in controversy over reports he has given members of his expensive clubs special access to the government.
Last week, the commander-in-chief was criticized for risking national security after photos emerged of him talking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a public dining room at his Mar-a-Lago resort after North Korea's missile test.
The tape appears to have been recorded at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey
Trump allegedly told the members: 'We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government'
The conversation - which would ordinarily take place behind closed doors and be classified - was captured on camera from close range by a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida last Saturday.
The photos show several aides using cellphone camera lights to help Trump and Abe read through documents at the table in the dimly lit dining room.
It prompted concerns that the phones being used in the public area could have the potential to be easily hacked, and that Trump was conducting national security business in an area accessible to the public.
President Donald Trump has been criticized for risking national security after photos emerged of him speaking to the Japanese PM and taking a phone call in the public dining room of his Mar-a-Lago resort after North Korea's missile test
The photos show aides using cellphone camera lights to help Trump and Abe read through documents at the table in the dining room, which prompted concerns given how easily the devices could be hacked
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Monday that no classified material was discussed at the dinner table and that the president had been briefed previously and afterward in a secure setting.
He said the photos on social media depicted Trump and Abe aides discussing the logistics of a press conference they were about to hold.
Facebook user Richard DeAgazio posted the pictures of Trump huddling with aides and Abe and taking calls in the dining room.
'HOLY MOLY !!! It was fascinating to watch the flurry of activity at dinner when the news came that North Korea had launched a missile in the direction of Japan,' DeAgazio wrote on his public Facebook page.
DeAgazio also wrote alongside one photo: 'The Prime Minister Abe of Japan huddles with his staff and the President is on the phone with Washington DC. the two world leaders then conferred and then went into another room for hastily arranged press conference. Wow.....the center of the action!!!'
DeAgazio also posed for a photo with a man whom he said carries the 'nuclear football' for the president.
He has since deleted his account.
The White House said photos on social media depicted Trump and Abe aides discussing the logistics of a press conference the two leaders were about to hold (pictured above) about the North Korean missile test
Facebook user Richard DeAgazio posted the pictures of Trump huddling with aides and Abe and taking calls in the dining room in the wake of the missile launch
North Korea launched a new ballistic missile Sunday, as it edges ever-closer to marrying nuclear and missile technology that could deliver a devastating payload to the continental United States.
When the president is away from the White House, many crisis conversations take place in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility - or SCIF.
The facilities are normally out-of-bounds for individuals without security clearance and common digital devises such as unsecured mobile phones.
The White House said that Trump was briefed in such a room 'prior to dinner'.
The incident left Democrats fuming with some saying the scene at Mar-a-Lago seemed to pose security risks.
Trump spent much of his campaign hammering opponent Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to conduct business while she was secretary of state - something Trump said was not nearly secure enough.
'There's inconsistency all over the place in terms of how much Donald Trump raised national security on the campaign trail and how he is now operating as president,' said Brian Fallon, who was Clinton's campaign spokesman.
'And there's hypocrisy from congressional leaders who demagogued this issue, constantly accusing Hillary Clinton of doing something that was far less egregious than this very conspicuous departure from security protocols.'
President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ate dinner with their wives and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots (left), on Friday night at Mar-a-Lago
Richard DeAgazio posted a number of photos while out to dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach over the weekend, including one with a man he claimed carries the nuclear codes (pair above)
Photos also showed that President Trump stopped by a wedding that was underway at his facility after his press conference
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wrote on Twitter: 'There's no excuse for letting an international crisis play out in front of a bunch of country club members like dinner theater.'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump 'never should have had such a sensitive discussion in such a public place.'
After working through the details of their joint response to North Korea, the two world leaders stepped into a wedding being held on Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, property.
A guest shot a minute-long video of Trump's impromptu speech, which was then shared with New York Magazine.
'I said to the prime minister of Japan, I said, 'Come on, Shinzo, let's go over and say hello,' Trump says on the video. 'It's an honor to be with you, and you really are a special, beautiful couple.'
The groom, Carl Henry Lindner IV, is the son of the chief executive of American Financial Group. The elder Lindner gave $100,000 last fall to two super PACs supporting Trump.
At the wedding, the video showed, the president kissed the bride on the cheek and encouraged the guests to get back to dancing.
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