2023-06-08 03:20:12
In a continuation of the investigation case opened by the US judiciary last year, following hundreds of secret documents were found in the home of former President Donald Trump, inside his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and in a move that paves the way for the possibility of an indictment once morest him, the Federal Public Prosecutor informed Trump’s defense agents that their client Under investigation regarding the way he handled these documents following leaving the White House in 2021.
His lawyers received this notification from the office of Attorney General Jack Smith, which means that the investigation is close to indicting the former president, who aspires to return to the Oval Office in next year’s elections, according to several US media outlets, today, Thursday.
However, it was not known when the lawyers received this notification, knowing that they met with officials in the Ministry of Justice on Monday, and among them was Attorney General Jack Smith, who is charged with independently overseeing the investigation in this case, according to CNN.
“no one told me”
On the other hand, the former president was quick to comment regarding the possibility of an indictment once morest him in that case, and wrote on his “Truth Social” social network, “No one told me that I was accused!”
And he added, “And I shouldn’t be, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”
US Justice calls for stopping a judicial decision that prevents access to Trump’s documents
In addition, the former president described the prosecution as a “witch-hunt” and issued a barrage of angry posts on social media once morest federal investigators on Tuesday, one day following his lawyers met with Smith and other Justice Department officials.
“The Marxists and Fascists in the Department of Justice and the FBI are following me at a level and speed never before seen in our country, and I have done nothing wrong,” Trump wrote in one of the many posts.
It is noteworthy that the former Republican president is accused of taking with him, when he left the White House in early 2021, full boxes of official documents, including defense documents classified as “top secret”.
More seriously, however, he has repeatedly refused to return it for safekeeping when asked to do so by those in charge of the presidential archives, in violation of federal laws.
This prompted the FBI to search his home in Mar-a-Lago, where they discovered hundreds of such documents, some of them unprofessionally preserved.
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