Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.
, a war crimes prosecutor with an aggressive, hard-charging reputation to lead both the documents probe as well as a separate investigation into efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
Since then, the Justice Department has amassed additional evidence and secured grand jury testimony from people close to Trump, . The statutes governing the handling of classified records and obstruction are felonies that could carry years in prison in the event of a conviction. and Justice Department officials. His lawyers had also recently been notified that he was the target of the investigation, the clearest sign yet that an indictment was looming.
FBI and Justice Department investigators issued a subpoena in May 2022 for classified documents that remained in Trump’s possession. But after a Trump lawyer provided three dozen records and asserted that a diligent search of the property had been done, officials came to suspect even more documents remained.
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