Trump indicted on seven criminal counts in classified documents case

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted connected 7 national criminal charges successful transportation with hundreds 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.

The quality of the latest charges against Trump are not public, arsenic the indictment is sealed for now.

Follow our unrecorded sum of Donald Trump's indictment in the classified documents case.

Trump 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.

Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination, is the lone U.S. president, erstwhile oregon otherwise, ever to beryllium criminally charged. A Trump governmental enactment committee instantly began fundraising disconnected of quality astir the latest indictment.

In a video connection Thursday, Trump called the caller charges "election interference astatine the highest level."

On Truth Social, Trump wrote, "I ne'er thought it imaginable that specified a happening could hap to a erstwhile President of the United States."

"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.

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

Agents recovered hundreds of documents marked classified.

A spokesperson for peculiar counsel Jack Smith, who has been starring the probe for the Department of Justice, declined to remark to NBC News.

Trump 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!"

A White House spokesperson declined to remark to NBC News, referring that petition to the Department of Justice, "which conducts its transgression investigations independently." 

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