![]() ![]() ![]() Prosecutors further said that the former president and his lawyers “offered no explanation as to why boxes of government records, including 38 documents with classification markings, remained at nearly five months” after they had initially turned over 15 boxes with classified documents to the National Archives in January following months of inquiries about returning them. ![]() He is the same judge who found probable cause of a crime authorizing the FBI to search Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. Trump is expected to surrender to authorities for his first appearance in Miami federal court on Tuesday, when issues of his legal representation, bond and arraignment would be addressed before Magistrate Bruce Reinhart. Months after his departure, Trump engaged in a confrontation with the National Archives and then the FBI over releasing the classified documents - including material about a foreign country’s nuclear capabilities and military defenses - leading to his arrest on charges of possessing the top secret papers at his private club and estate and withholding them from investigators. The case, however, stems from a drawn-out dispute over accusations that the former president had mishandled classified records. In the days leading up the indictment, his lawyers had met with prosecutors and Trump had taken to his own social media network to repeat claims that he has been treated unfairly by federal investigators. The historic indictment is sure to be a politically controversial and intensely covered prosecution in a federal courtroom not far from Trump’s palatial home. The indictment, which is likely to charge the former president with illegally possessing classified records, violating the Espionage Act and obstructing justice, was returned by grand jurors sitting in Miami. ![]()
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