Former President Donald Trump was prosecute over seven confederations criminal calculation involving hundreds classify government documents that he kept at his home in Florida after leaving The White House.
Trump himself revealed the indictment in a series of posts on his personal page. Social Truth social networking site on Thursday night. He also said he was summoned to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday.
NBC News soon after confirming the indictment, this is the second time in recent months Trump has been charged with a criminal offence charge. He is still under criminal investigation by the Georgia Department of Justice and state prosecutors for his failed reversal efforts before the President. Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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The nature of the latest charges against Trump has not been made public, as the indictment has now been sealed.
New York Timesciting people familiar with the matter, reported that the charges included “deliberately withholding national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements, and conspiring to obstruct justice.”
Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is the only US president, previously or otherwise, ever to be charged with a crime. A Trump political action committee immediately began raising funds from news of the latest indictment.
He was first indicted by a New York state grand jury in March on charges of falsifying business records involving hush money to a porn star in 2016.
In a video statement on Thursday, Trump called the new allegations “election interference of the highest degree.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump talks on the phone between plays, as he participates in the Pro-Am tournament ahead of the LIV Golf Invitational at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. May 25, 2023 .
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On Social Truth, trumpet wrote, “I never thought that would happen to a former President of the United States.”
“I AM INNOVATIVE! This truly is a DARK DAY for the United States of America,” he wrote.
Trump has been at the center of a federal criminal investigation since last year over his failure to request the return of government records, including classified documents, after the end of his presidency. By law, such records must be returned when the president leaves office.
Last August, FBI agents raided Trump’s home at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for records they believed would be there.
Dealers found hundreds of classified documents.
A spokesman for special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the investigation for the Justice Department, declined to comment to NBC News.
Trump, who most recently lived at his home in Bedminster, New Jersey, in his social media posts wrote, “The corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorneys that I was prosecuted, apparently for the Box Hoax.”
He complained that Biden himself had not been charged despite the fact that some government documents, some classified, were found at locations where he lived or worked with as a private citizen.
Biden is the subject of another special counsel’s investigation into those documents. But legal analysts said his situation was different from that of Trump because Trump did not return government records despite repeated requests from US officials to do so.
A White House spokesman declined to comment to NBC News. He referred that question to the Department of Justice, “which conducts its own criminal investigations independently.”
Until this week, it was only publicly known that a grand jury in federal court in Washington, DC, was hearing testimony and reviewing evidence related to the investigation of Trump documents, in when a separate grand jury in the same court investigated his attempt to overturn his case. election results 2020.
But earlier this week it was revealed that another grand jury in US District Court in Miami is also gathering evidence in the document investigation. That revelation raises the possibility that Trump will be criminally charged in Florida rather than in Washington.
Trump has long maintained a home in Florida, where in recent election cycles he and the Republican candidates for governor and senator have won.
The state’s current governor, Ron DeSantis, is running against Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Trump’s lawyers met with DOJ officials, including Smith, in Washington on Monday, allegedly to argue that Trump should not be indicted.
On Wednesday, a top Trump aide, Taylor Budowich, testified before a grand jury in Miami. Later that day, NBC News and other media reported that Trump had been formally informed that he was the target of a criminal investigation, a step usually taken just before a person is prosecuted. element.
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