The charges against Trump:
ABC News reports that President Trump has been indicted on 7 counts, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy, and a scheme to conceal false statements and representations.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/donald-trump-indicted-time-sources/story?id=99408228
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a second time, this time on federal charges in relation to his handling of classified information while out of office, sources familiar confirm to ABC News.
He is set to be arraigned in federal court in Miami on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET, sources said.
“We’re learning from our sources that there appear to be at least seven counts here. This ranges from everything from the willful retention of national defense information to conspiracy to a scheme to conceal, to false statements and representations,” ABC News’ Katherine Faulders reported during a special report on the network.
In a statement on social media, Trump wrote Thursday he had been told of the indictment and insisted the case was a “hoax.”
He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
Trump wrote he is “INNOCENT” and it was a “DARK DAY” for the U.S.
The unprecedented federal indictment of a former president — who already faces a criminal case in New York City that he denies and who is the current front-runner for the Republican Party’s nomination for the White House in 2024 — further underlines what are potentially the most consequential prosecutions in U.S. history, with both global and domestic implications.
Experts say a current U.S. government criminally prosecuting its former leader and current leading opposition party candidate upends long-held norms and could test the nation’s democratic system in a manner that stretches far beyond the merits of the case itself.
The federal probe has been led by special counsel Jack Smith, who was tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to oversee the Department of Justice’s investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents when his presidency ended.
Smith is also overseeing the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
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