Breaking news: Former president Donald Trump said on social media that he’s been charged by the Justice Department in connection with the discovery that hundreds of classified documents were taken to his Mar-a-Lago home after he left the White House.
gathered by the FBI indicated that Trump may have sought to keep documents, despite having turned over some material to authorities in response to the subpoena.
Trump has long insisted he did nothing wrong, and accused investigators of pursuing him for political reasons., Jack Smith, to take charge of the Mar-a-Lago case, saying that Trump’s announced candidacy for the presidency in 2024 and President Biden’s likely reelection bid meant there should be another layer of independence for the investigations involving Trump.
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