The Ministry of Justice wonders the persecution of Donald Trump - and reveals the charges against him (2024)

Washington- ThatHistorical federal indictmentPlaced against former President Donald Trump was published on Friday and described the charges for the former president in connection with his handling of sensitive government registers after leaving the White House.

OfCost of 44 pagesPlaced in Southern District's US District Court in Florida that Trump "has tried to prevent the FBI and Grand Jury Studies and to hide the preservation of classified documents."Walt Nauta, a tool for Trump that served as a middle house, thatIn co-venspirator.

The indictment shows 37 crimes that are counted in total against Trump:

• 31 counts of intentional storage of National Defense information
• 1 counting conspiracy to prevent justice
• 1 count a document or post
• 1 Count of corrupt hidden a document or post
• 1 counting of hiding a document in a federal investigation
• 1 counting of schedule to hide
• and 1 count of giving false explanations and representations.

At least four of the public prosecutors have a maximum fine of 20 years in prison.

Trump was called upon to perform on Tuesday at the Federal Court in Miami for a arrangement.carlos Gimenez from Florida thatTweeted a photowith the former president.

• Read the full text for the indictment against Trump here

What information was there in the boxes that were stored by Trump?

"The classified documents stored in his boxes contain information about defense and weapons capacities in both the United States and abroad; American nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities in the United States and its allies for military attacks; and plans for possible retributionIn response in response in response in response to response in response to a foreign attack, "the indictment of the constant viability of methods for collecting sensitive intelligence.

Of the 31 items "with regard to national defense" discovered in Mar-A-Lago, the intelligence briefings of the White House from 2018 to 2020 with regard to abroad, documents with regard to military capacities abroad and the United States wereA document in June 2020, involving a abroad -nuclear capacities, an undated record about the American nuclear weapon and a document from October 2018 on communication with the leader of another country.

21 of these documents had a "top secret" classification labeling, while nine was marked "secret".

The 31 documents relate to Trump's alleged violation of federal legislation on the intentional detention of national defense information.

The 38 counts in the indictment - the final number, also to give false explanations, is specificBroodThe special Council Jack Smith's study of documents restored from Trump's home in South Florida, Mar-A-Lago, after leaving the White House in January 2021. About 300 documents classified in everything, were picked up from theMeals of Mar-A-Lago after the end of Trump's presidency.

The indictment says that Mar-A-Lago "was not an authorized place for storage, possession, assessment, representation or discussion about classified documents" after Trump left the office.

"Nevertheless, Trump kept his boxes with classified documents in various places on the Mar-A-Lago-Club-Inclusive in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom and a storage space," according to the Archiving, whichContains photos with boxesStacked in the ballroom and in a bathroom next to a shower and toilet.

Another photo in the indictment shows a box in the storage space in Mar-a-Lago, which was tilted on the floor, with materials that waste from it.A non -geïdentified Trump employee text: "I opened the door and found this ..." with two photos of the stage.

Trump is said to have shown classified documents to others

It also claims that Trump showed classified documents to others and notes that the former president spoke on various occasions about the importance of protecting classified information, both as a candidate in 2016 and the former president.Classification markets in Mar-A-Lago.

According to the indictment, there were two apartments in 2021, when Trump showed classified documents to others.Had security ready.Definitated it ... Now I can't do it, you know, but this is still a secret, "says archiving.

The second apartment took place weeks later, either in August or September 2021, also on the ownership of Bedminster.The representative told not to show it and that the representative should not get too close.

Trump "received some of his boxes" to be moved to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in May 2021, because the prosecutors were "not authorized place."

Illegal detention and obstacle

The indictment determines the efforts of the National Archives and the Administration of the Ministry of Justice to restore Presidentrestre.2022 for all documents with classification markets.

Trump met two of his lawyers to discuss the response to the position of summons days after it had been published, told the lawyers that they had to look for documents that would respond to it.The indictment says that the former president said: "I don't want someone who doesn't want me to look through my boxes, I really don't want me not to have a garden that you have looked through my boxes," and asked:"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them that we have nothing here?"

Between the meeting with his lawyers on 23 May 2022, on the summons and 2 June 2022, when one of Trump's lawyers returned to Mar-A-Lago to Sille stored in the storage space, Nauta "moved to Trump Direction,"64 boxes of the former president's home, claim officers of Justice.Three were taken to the storage space according to the indictment.

In response to the application, a total of 38 documents were considerably classified for the officials of the Ministry of Justice who traveled to Mar -A -Lago to collect them.3 June 2022, when the items were reversed and a certification signed that "[B] was of the information delivered to" Haar ", a diligent search for the boxes that were moved from the White House to Florida.

"These statements were incorrect because Trump, among other things, had instructed Nauta to move boxes before Trump -Tattorney 1's 2nd review, so many boxes were not searched and many documents that responded on 11 May -Resting. Found by Trump Attorney 1," the charge states.

The attempts to restore the items that have been pronounced with an extraordinary judicial authorized search from Mar-A-Lago by the FBI on 8 August 2022. The indictment notes that "more than 100 documents with classification markets on mar-aLagoklub "remained until FBIS August Search.

The FBI opened its research into the alleged illegal detention of classified documents in Mar-A-Lago at the end of March 2022, and a Federal Grand Jury Survey started next month.

Prosecutors described what they said were the former president's efforts to prevent the probe, including suggesting that his lawyer wrongly represents researchers that Trump had no documents, the FBI and the Great Jury.

He also suggested that his lawyer hide or destroy documents that fall under the summons.-A-Lago.

The government says that Trump knew this because he "had instructed boxes to be removed from the storage space [on Mar-A-Lago] before Trump is looking for 1 on 2 June 2022" after documents with classified markings."Documents did not find" who responded to the application on 11 May " - and was not delivered to the FBI.

After 3 June 2022, the government is looking for: "More than 100 documents with classification markets remained in the Mar-A-Lago Club until the FBI search in August 2022."

The indictment claims that Trump has continued classified documents "comes from or implies shares for" number of agencies within the intelligence community, including the CIA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and departments of energy, defense and state.

The criminal case brought by federal prosecutors in Florida is not related toState costsThe level against him in April in New York.This accusation includes accusations of counterfeiting business registers.

Smith also investigates the efforts to stop the transfer of power after the presidential elections in 2020 and events around 6 January 2021, attack on Capitol, and this investigation will be underway.

What happens besides Trump?

Trump is expected to travel to Columbus, Georgia, on Saturday to first speak at the State Gop convention and then at the Republican Convention of North Carolina in Greensboro.

On Monday, two sources of knowledge of the planning of CBS News Trump to travel from Bedminister to Miami via his private plane, "Trump Force One."

-Fine Gomez and Nicole Sanga have contributed to this report.

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