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For the first time in the United States, Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal judge

For the first time in the United States, Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal judge

Former US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has been indicted in the White House archives case, where he is accused of taking entire boxes of documents and some classified documents with him when he left the presidency.

A new danger for Republicans who dream of winning back the US presidency in 2024. Donald Trump announced Thursday, June 8, that he has been indicted by federal justice for managing the White House archives. “I have been charged by the corrupt Biden administration, presumably in the fake case of the boxes,” he wrote on his truth social network about the boxes of documents he carried with him. He left Washington.

The billionaire, whose Florida home was raided last summer by FBI agents seeking records, said he will appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday. His attorney, Jim Trusty, told CNN that his client will go to trial and that he faces seven charges under the Espionage Act, which specifically prohibits possession of classified documents in unauthorized and unsecured locations.

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Justice and Prohibition of Perjury

Donald Trump, the first former president in US history to be indicted by a federal judge, is being prosecuted for obstruction of justice and perjury. In March, he was already indicted by a New York state judge on multiple counts of fraud in connection with payments he made to silence an X Movies actress who claimed to be his mistress before the 2016 presidential election.

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The former real estate tycoon, currently ahead of other candidates for the Republican nomination, has always defended himself against any fraud and portrayed himself as a victim of “political persecution.” “I am innocent, I have done nothing wrong”, he assured in a video posted on Twitter on Thursday evening, condemning “election interference at the highest level”. Elected Republicans immediately closed ranks around him.

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11,000 documents were seized

In January 2021, when he left the White House to move into his luxurious residence at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump took boxes full of files with him. However, a 1978 law requires any US president to turn over all of his emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.

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A year later, after several reminders, he agreed to return 15 boxes containing more than 200 classified documents. In a letter, his lawyers assured that there were no others. After the investigation, federal police estimated that he had not returned everything and that he still had a lot at the club in Palm Beach.

FBI agents went there on August 8 and seized about thirty boxes containing 11,000 documents, some of which were very important to Iran or China. In a scathing media operation, his lawyers released a photo of him sprawled on a flower-patterned carpet, labeled “Top Secret” among the seized documents, in a scathing rebuke to the FBI.