Donald Trump will be arrested for the second time in less than three months.
independent A federal grand jury indicted the former president on June 8 for allegedly illegally retaining national defense information, adding to the legal pressure on the twice-impeached former president for his party’s nomination. Next year’s Republican presidential primary.
Trump himself first revealed the indictment in a series of posts on his Truth Social platform just a day later independent Federal prosecutors had planned to ask a grand jury to indict him on Thursday, the report said.
“The corrupt Biden administration has notified my attorneys that I have been indicted, seemingly for the Boxes shenanigans,” he wrote, using a phrase he often uses to describe the long-running investigation.
In a subsequent post, Mr. Trump said he had been summoned to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday, June 13 at 3 p.m. ET.
At that point, Mr. Trump is expected to be arrested and registered before appearing in court.
Trump is unlikely to go to jail after his arraignment. Instead, the proceedings are expected to follow what happened in early April, when Mr. Trump appeared in a Manhattan courthouse to face criminal charges following Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into secret payments that led to the 2016 presidential election.
The latest indictment against Trump includes seven separate counts, including one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of making false statements and at least one count of illegally retaining national defense information.
The charges come days after his legal team made a final attempt to persuade Justice Department officials not to bring charges against him in a classified documents investigation that uncovered more than 100 documents in the National Archives and Records Administration early last year. The filings began when a group of 15 boxes, marked with sorting marks, were retrieved from Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., residence.
The discovery led Nara officials to notify the Justice Department, which began investigating how the documents ended up in Trump’s possession.
Throughout the investigation, prosecutors and investigators were concerned that the former president had not truthfully stated whether he had returned all classified documents in his possession to the custody of the government as required by the Presidential Records Act, a post-Watergate legal declaration of the president All records of the administration are the property of the government and must be handed over to Yoshitomo Nara when the president leaves office.
But the classified nature of the records involved has added a new twist to the dispute between Trump and his administration between January 2017 and January 2021.
The former president has repeatedly claimed that he used the sweeping secrecy and declassification privileges granted to the US chief executive to declassify any records he brought to his Palm Beach home at Mar-a-Lago , a 1920s mansion he bought in the 1990s and then turned into a private social club.
There is no evidence that any such order was ever made, and in recordings obtained by prosecutors, Trump is said to have admitted that he did not declassify certain records in his possession long after his authority to own them expired .
