Prosecutors unseal an indictment against Donald Trump, accusing the former US president of risking some of the country's most sensitive secrets with his handling of unclassified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
Prosecutors have unsealed an indictment against Donald Trump, accusing the former US president of risking some of the country's most sensitive security secrets with his handling of unclassified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.The indictment charges Mr Trump with 37 counts, alleging he held documents about military secrets and the US nuclear program
The Justice Department made the criminal charges public on a tumultuous day in which two Trump lawyers quit the case.charges Mr Trump with 37 counts, with a former aide, Walt Nauta, facing charges as well. Materials came from the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies, the indictment said.
During an interview with the FBI on May 26, 2022, Mr Nauta falsely told the FBI he did not know how some of the documents ended up in Mr Trump's suite at Mar-a-Lago, when in fact he had been involved in moving them there from a storage room, according to the indictment.
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