June 8, 2023, 9:16 PM
June 8, 2023, 9:16 PM
Donald Trump assured this Thursday that he has been charged with various federal crimes for his handling of classified documents after leaving the presidency of the United States in 2021.
“I never thought it possible that something like this could happen to a former president of the United States,” the former president wrote Thursday on his Truth Social social network.
“I have been charged, apparently, for the deceit of the boxes”he said in reference to the boxes with classified government documents that were found a few months ago in his mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
This is the second indictment against Trump.who is a contender for the 2024 presidential nomination for the Republican Party.
In March, he was charged with 34 charges in connection with the case of alleged secret payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Details of the prosecution about the classified documents have not been released.
The former president He must appear next Tuesday in a Miami courtin Florida.
The American chain CBS, a partner of the BBC, reported that a source assured that the accusation was linked to the case of the classified documents and that involved multiple charges.
Other US outlets, including CNN and ABC News, said the indictment included 7 crimes.
The Justice Department declined to comment and the indictment has not been published. New York special counsel Jack Smith has been analyzing evidence since he was assigned to the case by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November.
Smith, a former war crimes lawyer who enjoys a reputation as a tough investigator, is also overseeing an independent investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The find at Mar-a-Lago
Last year, FBI agents raided Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
In the operation, they seized more than 11,000 documents, including around 100 marked as classified. Some of these were labeled top secret.
Last week, prosecutors had obtained an audio recording in which Trump admitted to putting away a classified document after leaving the White House.
It is a crime for federal officials, including the president, to remove or retain classified documents in an unauthorized location.
Trump noted in his post on Thursday that classified documents have also been found in President Joe Biden’s private quarters.
“Joe Biden had 1,850 boxes at the University of Delaware, additional boxes in Chinatown, DC, even more boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents scattered all over the floor of his garage where he parks his Corvette, which is ‘insured’ only for a garage door that is paper thin, and open most of the time,” he wrote on Truth Social.
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