2023-06-12 21:33:40
Former President Donald Trump, who must appear in federal court in Miami this Tuesday, accused of having kept confidential documents after leaving the White House, threatened on Monday to appoint a prosecutor to “pursue” the current president, Joe Biden.
On his social network, Truth Social, Trump said that if he wins the 2024 presidential election, and “now that the ‘seal’ is broken…I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in American history, the entire Biden crime family and everyone else involved in the destruction of our elections, borders and country same”.
In late May, Rolling Stone magazine reported that Trump was trying to get the names of people in the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who have been working on federal investigations into their actions, so they can be fired if he returns to the White House.
Trump faces 37 charges, including “unlawful withholding of information related to national security,” “obstruction of justice,” and “false testimony” in the case of the classified documents he took from the White House when he left office. . He alleges that the documents were not classified and that he had every right to take them, that he did “nothing wrong.”
Boxes of documents he kept — some of them stored in a bathroom — contain nuclear secrets, according to the 44-page indictment unsealed Friday.
Violate national security laws “puts our country in jeopardy” said special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation for months.
The 76-year-old real estate magnate considers himself the victim of a “witch hunt” intended to obstruct his presidential candidacy and points an accusing finger at “the radical left.”
For the moment, the Republicans are closing ranks around him, but some personalities They have declared themselves surprised by the content of the documents.
Among them his former Justice Minister Bill Barr, who has become one of his detractors. On Sunday he said he was shocked by “the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were”.
He noted, in statements to Fox News, that “if only half of this is true, then (he) is burned. It’s a very detailed accusation, and it’s very, very damning”:
It is the first time that a former US president has been indicted at the federal level. But Trump has already been indicted for accounting fraud by the New York state courts, due to a payment made before the 2016 presidential election. to silence an X movie actress who says she was her lover.
On Monday morning, Trump said he was preparing to go to Miami, where he will appear Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. local time. According to one of his lawyers, he will plead not guilty.
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