Trump could be charged for keeping top secret documents

Trump could be charged for keeping top secret documents

donald trump was informed by the federal justice which is investigated by handling of classified White House filesin a sign that a formal imputation of the former US president who seeks to be reelected in 2024.

According to various US media, including The New York Times and CNN, federal prosecutors notified the former president’s lawyers that the investigation was no longer limited to his closest collaborators, but they point directly at you.

Prosecutors accuse him of having preserved whole boxes of documentseven some classified as top secret after his departure from Washington in 2021, and having refused to return them, violating federal laws.

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The news broke on Wednesday night after Trump’s lawyers met last Monday with officials of the Justice Departmentin particular the special prosecutor jack smithin charge of supervising the investigation in a manner independent.

Trump, who for now is widely ahead of the other candidates after the Republican inauguration, always defended himself against any embezzlement and is presented as victim of “political persecution”. “How could the Department of Justice indict me when I did nothing“, he wrote Monday on his platform TruthSocialat the moment in which their lawyers were received by those responsible for this ministry.

What the US law says about special documents

In USAa 1978 law requires every US president to transmit all of his letters, emails and other working documents in the National Archives. Another law, about espionageprohibits anyone from keeping confidential documents in places unauthorized and uninsured.

By leaving the presidency to settle in a luxurious residence sea-a-lakein FloridaTrump took however whole boxes of documents. In January 2022, after several reminders, he agreed to return 15 boxes that contained more than 200 classified documents. In an email, his lawyers assured that there were no others.

The Federal police however, he estimated that he had not returned everything and that he still had many in his club of Palm Beach. The agents of fbi went there on August 8 and kidnapped other 30 boxes that contained 11,000 documentsamong them some very delicate ones about Iran and China.

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When denouncing a media operation, his lawyers widely criticized the fbi their publication, according to them unnecessarya photo showing confiscated documents stamped with the mention top secreton a flowered carpet.

To quell accusations of foul play, the attorney general merrick garland appointed special prosecutor jack smith to oversee this investigation, as well as another on the Trump’s role in the storming of the Capitol. Another special prosecutor investigates in parallel about confidential classified documents found at the beginning of the year in an old office at the home of the Democratic president Joe Biden by their lawyers.

These embarrassing findings, as well as others at a former vice president’s residence Mike Penceallowed Trump to relativize his conduct, although Biden always cooperated with justiceby restituting the documents, much fewer in number, of their own free will.

The Republican billionaire also used those findings to unite his followers when it reaches the justice. This was the case in April, when the court of the state of NY accused him of falsify accounting documents in connection with the payment of $130,000 to one porn actress before 2016 electionin exchange for his silence on a alleged relationship. It was the first time in the history of USA that a former president was the object of a criminal process.

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