2023-06-09 03:07:34
The former president of the United States Donald Trump announced this Thursday that it was indicted in federal investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
“The corrupt Biden administration informed my lawyers that I was accused, apparently for the hoax of the boxes”, he wrote on his Truth Social network. The Justice Department did not immediately confirm the announcement.
In his post, Trump, who is a candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, He assured that he was summoned to appear before a federal court in Miami on Tuesday, in what is his second indictment, after the one in March, for accounting irregularities in the payment to a porn actress.
“I never thought something like this could happen to a former president of the United States,” he wrote.
The Republican’s announcement comes a day after US media reported that Federal prosecutors informed the former president’s lawyers that they are the subject of an investigation for his handling of classified documents.
Trump ya he was the first former president or sitting president charged with a crime for payment, prior to the elections, made to a porn star to keep quiet about a relationship with him.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, investigates the classified files Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence after leaving the White House.
The FBI found some 11,000 pages in August after raiding Trump’s house. The former president could face obstruction of justice charges after spending months resisting the recovery of these documents. Trump He has consistently denied that he acted illegally.
The ex-president could be charged for two other cases, the former for his efforts to nullify the results of the 2020 Georgia election and for his role in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021 by a mob of followers of the tycoon.
In United States, A 1978 law requires every US president to transmit all of his letters, emails, and other working documents to the National Archives. Another law, on espionage, prohibits anyone from keeping confidential documents in unauthorized and unsecured places.
Leaving the Presidency to settle in a luxurious Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump took whole boxes of documents, however.
In January 2022, after several reminders, he agreed to return 15 boxes containing more than 200 classified documents. In an email, their lawyers assured that there were no others.
The Federal Police estimated, however, that he had not returned everything and that he still had many in his Palm Beach club.
Los FBI agents went there on August 8 and seized another thirty boxes containing the 11,000 documents, including some very sensitive ones on Iran and China.
Strongly denouncing a media operation, his lawyers widely criticized the FBI for publishing, according to them unnecessary, a photo showing confiscated documents stamped with the mention “Top Secret” on a flowered carpet.
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