Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury for retaining classified government documents and obstruction of justice, according to a source familiar with the matter. The criminal case, brought by the US Department of Justice, amounts to another legal setback for Trump as he seeks to regain the US presidency next year. He already faces...
Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury for retaining classified government documents and obstruction of justice, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Trump faces seven criminal counts in the federal case, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Investigators seized roughly 13,000 documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, nearly a year ago. One hundred were marked as classified, even though one of Trump's lawyers had previously said all records with classified markings had been returned to the government.
President from 2017 to 2021, Trump is the front-runner in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Smith convened grand juries in both Washington and Miami to hear evidence, but appears to have decided to bring the case in the politically competitive state of Florida, rather than the US capital, where any jury would likely be heavily Democratic.
The classified documents investigation was first referred to prosecutors in 2022 after the US National Archives and Records Administration tried for more than a year to retrieve presidential records from Trump.
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