Report: Trump is again indicted by the Justice Department for mishandling classified documents

Donald Trump is being prosecuted by the Justice Department again, this time by the Justice Department over its investigation into his mishandling of classified documents, according to The New York Times.. The indictment was filed in Federal District Court in Miami, according to Time. He was the first president in US history to be criminally charged twice after leaving office. In April, he became the first US president to be indicted, by deadline, of 34 Class E felonies stemming from hush money he made in the run-up to the election. 2016. The exact allegations of the second indictment are unknown, but time reported there would be seven counts against Trump including conspiracy to obstruct, making false statements and knowingly withholding documents.

“I never thought it could happen to a former President of the United States, who has received more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading the way. first, by far, all the Candidates, including the Democratic Party. and Republicans, in the polls for the 2024 presidential election,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday. “I AM AN INNOVATIVE MAN!”

Trump said he must appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday.

Jack Smith, The special counsel running the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, was appointed by Garland last November, about a year and a half after the government began its task of requiring the former president to turn over the documents. what is not his. In April, washington articles reported that Smith discovered “substantial” evidence that Trump obstructed justice, and a month later, guard reported that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran warned the former president not to withhold any government documents after a grand jury called him for the documents – meaning he knew he was not authorized to keep any classified documents. anyway, which he of course did. In June, a CNN report revealed that the Justice Department had obtained audio recordings of Trump bragging about his possession of classified documents related to a potential attack on Iran. Days later, the former president’s legal team is said to have met with the DOJ to argue that he should not be charged.

Other important dates and times in the document’s timeline include, by The New York Times:

• May 6, 2021: The National Archives and Records Administration’s general counsel informed Trump’s lawyers that important documents had been lost and asked for help getting them back.
• May 18, 2021: A Trump lawyer says Trump is willing to return letters he exchanged with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. When the archives said they should be sent via FedEx, the Trump Team objected and the documents were not returned. Trump then displayed the letters, waving them around people in his office.
• End of 2021: NARA officials warned former presidents’ representatives that they could refer the matter to the DOJ or notify Congress if Trump fails to comply with the Presidential Records Act. Trump personally went through the documents, and his lawyers later told the archives there were dozens of boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago for them to pick up.
• January 18, 2022: The archives retrieved 15 boxes containing, among other things, sensitive material, which the DOJ later said “appears to contain defense information.” After reviewing the contents of the boxes, investigators believe Trump didn’t turn over everything he was supposed to do.
• That time period: Trump is said to ask for a lawyer Alex Cannon to tell NARA that all the documents requested by the agency had been delivered, despite the fact that he was still in possession of thousands of other government documents. Based on The Washington D.C Parcel, Cannon, who has “facilitated January delivery” of 15 boxes, doesn’t feel comfortable making such a claim. He is said to have told people he doesn’t know whether all requested documents have been returned, and “other Trump advisers also encouraged Cannon not to make a definitive statement.” so.”
• February 9, 2022: NARA referred the matter to the DOJ.
• Spring 2022: A grand jury was sent to investigate the lost documents, and the FBI began interviewing several of Trump’s personal aides, in addition to a trio of former White House lawyers. Trump assured his advisers that he had turned everything over.
• April 29, 2022: The DOJ told Trump’s attorneys that more than 700 pages of documents in 15 boxes obtained by the archive contained classified markings and that law enforcement must determine “potential damage due to an apparent problem in the where these documents are stored and transported as well as taking any necessary remedial steps.”
• May 11, 2022: Trump was sent a subpoena by a federal grand jury demanding the return of all documents marked as classified. A week later, in conducting its own review of 15 boxes retrieved earlier that year, the FBI discovered that some of the documents brought to Mar-a-Lago related to foreign intelligence surveillance.
• June 3, 2022: Christina Bobb, allegedly ordered by Trump’s fellow attorney, Even Corcoran, to sign a document declaring that, to the best of her knowledge, all remaining classified documents have been turned over.
• June 2022: The FBI interviews aides to the former president.
• June 22, 2022: Subpoenas for Mar-a-Lago security footage sent to the Trump Organization; The footage shows people moving boxes from the basement of Mar-a-Lago as the documents were archived, around the time the DOJ contacted its concerns.
• August 5, 2022: A federal judge approves a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago; In the application, the DOJ wrote: “there is good reason to believe that additional documents containing NDI are classified [national defense information] or it is the president’s records that are subject to record-keeping requirements currently maintained on the premises.”
• August 8, 2022: The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago and found more than 100 additional classified documents, including those believed to be related to a foreign government’s nuclear secrets.
• August 10, 2022: Trump unfoundedly suggested that the FBI gave evidence at Mar-a-Lago, a claim to which he was subsequently asked to provide factual evidence and did not.
• September 21, 2022: Trump says he declassified documents at Mar-a-Lago in his head: