Susie Wiles was on plane and witnessed event, according to files shown to House judiciary committee
Federal prosecutors examined whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to people on his plane after his first term, including to his now White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, according to justice department materials produced to the House judiciary committee.
The incident was described in a 13 January 2023 briefing memo prepared for the then attorney general, Merrick Garland – roughly six months before special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Trump’s alleged disclosure of the map, as described in the memo, would mark the second known time he waved around a classified map in front of Wiles. The indictment charging Trump also described an incident where he showed a classified map to people at his Bedminster club in New Jersey.
It was unclear whether the map Trump said to have brandished on his plane in 2022 and at Bedminster were one and the same. The map he had at Bedminster was a military map of Afghanistan, which Trump was showing associates as he criticized Joe Biden for the US withdrawal in 2021.
