Donald Trump has been indicted on almost 40 charges in the trial related to secret documents.
With the former president of the United States With Donald Trump was in possession of secret documents concerning, among other things, nuclear weapons, weapons programs and the country’s defense plans. Some of the information concerned foreign powers. The information is revealed in the indictment, which was released by federal prosecutors on Friday.
The documents had been stolen from, among others, the Ministry of Defense, the CIA and various security bodies.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the secret documents in Trump’s possession could endanger the security of the country.
Trump has been indicted on nearly 40 charges.
According to the New York Times, the prosecutors present evidence, among other things, that Trump presented a highly sensitive plan for an attack on Iran during a visit to his golf club in July 2021. In the recording recorded at the event, Trump further characterized the material as “highly confidential” and “secret”.
Tuesday before the court
In addition to Trump, his assistant is also indicted Waltine Cattle. Trump told about the accusations on Thursday local time on his own Truth Social messaging service.
According to Trump, he has been summoned to Miami to appear in federal court next Tuesday. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. The case is about Trump’s possession of classified documents after his presidency.
Trump had stored about 11,000 documents at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.
The FBI searched the home in August
The investigation into the matter began last year. In the end, the US federal police, the FBI, carted away thousands of documents from the mansion during a search of the house in August. For months, Trump had tried to block the return of the documents.
Trump is the first former US president to face federal charges. Trump has announced that he will run for president again. Even though Trump is on the receiving end of charges, it won’t stop his presidential campaign.
Even if Trump gets a conviction, it wouldn’t prevent him from serving as president if elected, says law professor Anna G. Cominsky for the Washington Post.
Several leading Republican politicians characterized Trump’s indictment as “weaponizing” the law. This was said, among others, by Ron DeSantis, who is also seeking the party’s presidential nomination.