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The indictment, made public Thursday, apparently stems from an FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last August, when the federal government recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings, including material labeled “top secret,” months after Trump’s lawyers were seized. 15 first boxes of documents turned over.
The special counsel has been investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents brought to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House in 2021.
Trump is the first president in US history to face federal criminal charges, though the indictment announced this week is not his first. Trump was first indicted earlier this year and pleaded not guilty to 34 felonies filed in March by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. That New York grand jury indicted Trump over his alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to an adult film actress during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up an alleged affair, which Trump denies.
The former president also continues to be investigated by Special Counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Georgia prosecutors for his attempt to overturn the election results in that state.
Trump’s lawyer said in a separate interview with Fox News that Trump’s second indictment is nothing more than a “political weapon to sideline a candidate.”
“None of this comes as a surprise to the real people at Archives, but they turned it into a political weapon to sideline a candidate,” Trump attorney Jim Trusty said Friday on Fox and Friends. “There is a lot wrong with the merits of these possible charges or what the charges appear to be. But the downside, even before you get there, is the misconduct.”
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