During the meeting, Trump was formally arrested.
In the courtroom, former US President and his colleague Walt Nauth will be read charges on 37 criminal counts, reports CNN . According to the channel, the former US president pleads not guilty to any of the charges.
On your social network Truth Social (not available in Ukraine) Trump wrote that today is “one of the saddest days” in US history.
On June 8, ABC News reported that Trump had received a letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office. It reported that he was the subject of an ongoing investigation into his handling of classified information outside of the office.
On June 9, Trump and Naut were indicted on 37 counts. The 31 counts relate to Trump’s willful possession of national defense information. His former assistant, Nauta, has been charged with six counts.
Among other things, Trump and Nauta are accused of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and Trump himself is accused of showing secret documents to others twice.
As CNN reported, in Bedminster in 2021, Trump described the plan for an unnamed attack that the Department of Defense had prepared, and also showed a secret map related to the military operation. In addition, according to the indictment, Trump kept secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. In August 2022, 11 sets of classified documents were found at Trump’s residence. The list of what was seized from the ex-president takes three pages, and among the documents there are, in particular, folders with photographs and information about the “president of France”, as well as data on the state’s nuclear potential.
Reuters noted that Trump kept thousands of government documents, several hundred of which were marked as classified. He did not voluntarily return them, despite numerous requests from the National Archives.
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2023-06-13 18:47:59