Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president, former or otherwise, to be indicted on federal criminal charges.
Trump's announcement of his federal indictment suggested he was the victim of disparate treatment by the government toward him and Biden, since they are both being investigated for allegedly mishandling classified documents.
The former vice president has testified before a grand jury in Washington pertaining to special counsel Jack Smith's probes of Trump's attempt to hold on to power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination earlier this week. He joins a field that's currently led by Trump, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a distant second, according to polls.
The former president said he is scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. He had stashed boxes of White House documents, classified and otherwise, at his private South Florida club Mar-a-Lago.In 2016, Trump said he'd 'enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information'
"She set up this illegal server knowing full well that her actions put our national security at risk and put the safety and security of your children and your families at risk," Trump told supporters in Arizona at an Oct. 29, 2016, campaign event.James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C. Sunday, April 9, 2023.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Trump put U.S. national security in "grave danger" by pursuing "yet another lawless personal agenda," in a statement Thursday.
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