Trump indicted in classified documents case in Florida

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted connected national transgression charges successful transportation with his retention of classified authorities documents helium retained aft leaving the White House.

Trump himself disclosed the indictment successful a bid of posts connected his Truth Social societal media tract connected Thursday evening. He besides said helium has been summoned to look successful tribunal successful Miami connected Tuesday.

NBC News soon aft confirmed the indictment, which is the 2nd clip successful caller months that Trump has been criminally charged. He was archetypal indicted by a New York authorities expansive assemblage successful March connected charges of falsifying concern records successful transportation with a hush wealth outgo to a porn prima successful 2016.

"I ne'er thought it imaginable that specified a happening could hap to a erstwhile President of the United States, who received acold much votes than immoderate sitting President successful the History of our Country, and is presently leading, by far, each Candidates, some Democrat and Republican, successful Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election," Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Thursday.

"I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!This is so a DARK DAY for the United States of America," helium wrote.

Trump has been the absorption of a national transgression probe since past twelvemonth implicit his stonewalling of requests to instrumentality authorities records, including classified documents, aft ending his word arsenic president. By law, specified records indispensable beryllium returned erstwhile a president leaves office.

Trump's location astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida, was raised past August by FBI agents searching for records they believed would beryllium located there.

Agents recovered hundreds of documents marked classified.

Trumo successful his societal media posts wrote: "The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I person been Indicted, seemingly implicit the Boxes Hoax, adjacent though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes astatine the University of Delaware, further Boxes successful Chinatown, D.C., with adjacent much Boxes astatine the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn each implicit his store level wherever helium parks his Corvette, and which is "secured" by lone a store doorway that is insubstantial thin, and unfastened overmuch of the time."

"I person been summoned to look astatine the Federal Courthouse successful Miami connected Tuesday, astatine 3 PM," Trump wrote. "We are a Country successful superior and accelerated Decline, but unneurotic we volition Make America Great Again!"

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