“Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades. “It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him,” McCarthy said in a tweet. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., called it “a dark day” for the country and threatened to fight the “weaponization" of the prosecution by the Biden administration. A person familiar with the situation who was not authorized to discuss it publicly said Trump's lawyers were contacted by prosecutors shortly before he announced on his Truth Social platform that he had been indicted, according to The Associated Press. Trump is currently in Bedminster, New Jersey. “This will be done when we re-elect President Donald J. "The Biden Regime, which is realizing they can’t beat or cheat their way to another victory, has taken the unprecedented step to indict President Trump,” Leavitt said. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Make America Great Again Inc., said the case reflected a two-tiered justice system in America “that must be confronted and destroyed.” One of Trump's lawyers, Alina Habba, told Fox News that Trump would be "vindicated," and attacked the Justice Department for "selective prosecution" and "selective persecution.” She called the case “Russia third-world stuff." Allies, adversaries weigh in with opinionsĪ wave of Trump aides and allies took to social media, email, and television networks to condemn the indictment.
"I have the absolute right to do whatever I want with them," Trump said at a recent CNN town hall. But Trump has argued repeatedly that he could take records with him after leaving the White House, despite the Presidential Records Act giving ownership to the National Archives and Records Administration, and that he had declassified them, despite the lack of documentation for his assertion. Legal experts have argued charges alleging the mishandling of classified documents could be the most straightforward case against Trump because the records were seized at Mar-a-Lago. Timeline of documents case: Timeline: The journey of Trump’s classified documents Trump said that the "Biden Administration" had informed his attorneys "that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax." He then complained about Biden's own possession of classified documents, which is the subject of another investigation.Ī Justice Department spokesperson declined comment on Trump's announcement. "The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted," Trump said in the statement, contrasting his treatment to the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden's former office and home. He said that he was summoned to appear Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m. Trump confirmed the indictment in a statement and protested his innocence in a post on Truth Social. Trump was indicted on seven charges, according to a person who has been briefed on the case. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has been investigating the potential mishandling of national defense records. More than 300 classified documents were recovered more than a year after Trump left the White House, most under subpoena in June 2022 or during an FBI search in August 2022. WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges related to the hundreds of classified documents seized from his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, an unprecedented step in the wide-ranging investigations that include his previous indictment in New York.
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