Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was indicted on charges of mishandling more than 300 classified documents.
President Trump said his lawyers had been informed of the indictment over documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home in August. He was summoned to appear in federal court in Miami, Florida, at 3:00 p.m. on June 13.
The former president was quick to point to classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware and his office at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Page 1: Joe Biden owns 1850 boxes at the University of Delaware, more boxes in DC Chinatown, more boxes at the University of Washington, yet corrupt The Biden administration has notified my attorney that I have been indicted, apparently over the box hoax.” Papers litter the University of Pennsylvania, and the floor of the garage where the Corvette is parked, where It’s paper-thin and “safe” with just an open garage door most of the time,” the former president wrote to Truth Social.
“Page two: I was summoned to appear in federal court in Miami at 3 p.m. Tuesday,” he continued. “Such a thing could happen to a former U.S. president who in the history of this country received far more votes than the incumbent president and now leads both Democratic and Democratic candidates by a wide margin. I never thought there would be a Republican supporter in the 2024 presidential election polls. I am an innocent man! ”
“Today is just a dark day for the United States,” he said. concluded. “We are a country in serious and rapid decline, but together let’s make America great again!”
President Trump declared his innocence in a video posted to Truth Social, calling the indictment “the biggest witch hunt in history” and an attempt to interfere in the 2024 election.
“It is very sad that even though we are a country in decline, people are chasing a popular president,” he said. “In the history of our country, the president who won by far the most votes among the incumbent presidents, and who did much better in the second election than in the first, is going after him in a hoax. Russia, Like Russia, the Russian hoax, and everything else, it’s been seven years since this is election interference at the highest level and it can’t be stopped, it’s never happened before. An innocent man.I am an innocent man.”
Federal prosecutors notified Trump’s legal team on Thursday of an investigation into allegations of Trump’s mishandling of documents. President Trump faces new indictment by a Manhattan grand jury in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election for allegedly paying former porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money to silence him about an affair allegation. faced. (Related: DOJ raids Biden’s Delaware home for second time)
The FBI raided Trump’s home in August and recovered 15 boxes containing classified documents requested by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Investigators at the scene recovered about 20 boxes of binders, handwritten notes and administrative grants for pardoning Roger Stone, information on the President of France, and binders of photographs.
In a statement on August 12, President Trump claimed that all documents were declassified and kept safe.
In November, Mr. Biden’s lawyers found classified documents at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank where Mr. Biden held office when he was vice president. They found additional Obama-Biden-era documents in the president’s private garage next to the president’s Corvette in Delaware on Dec. 11, Jan. 11, and Jan. 12.
