It is in the case that he is being investigated for retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice. “The corrupt Biden administration informed my lawyers that I was indicted,” he posted.
Donald Trump was indicted in the United States federal court
He Former United States President Donald Trump said Thursday that was indicted in the federal investigation by retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice after leaving the White House. “The corrupt Biden administration informed my lawyers that I was indicted,” he wrote on his Truth Social network.
The criminal case, presented by the United States Department of Justice, marks another legal setback for Trump in his bid to regain the US presidency next year. He already faces one criminal case in New York which is due to go to trial in March. Trump wrote that he had been subpoenaed to testify in federal court in Miami on Tuesday.
trump faces seven criminal counts in federal casesaid a source, speaking on condition of anonymity, to Reuters.
In an affidavit in federal court last year, an FBI agent said there was probable cause to believe that multiple crimes had been committedincluding obstruction and unlawful withholding of sensitive defense records. The US Department of Justice has been investigating whether Trump mishandled classified documents which he kept after leaving the White House in 2021.
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Investigators seized about 13,000 documents from the Mar-a-Lago estate of the former president in Palm Beach, Florida, almost a year ago. One hundred were marked as classified, despite the fact that one of Trump’s lawyers had previously said that all records with classified marks had been returned to the government.
Trump has previously defended his withholding of documents, suggesting that he declassified them while he was president. However, it has provided no evidence of this and its lawyers have refused to use that argument in documents filed with the court.
It is the second time that Trump, the first former president in US history to face criminal charges, has been indicted. In April, he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. related to money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election. Trump also faces a second federal criminal investigation into efforts tonullify his defeat in the 2020 elections before US President Joe Biden.
Source: Ambito
