Trump to make historic court appearance in secret papers case FMTNews FMTWorld
MIAMI: Former US president Donald Trump was due to appear in federal court in Miami today to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, he holds a wide lead over his rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election and 81% of Republican voters view the charges against him as politically motivated. Trump’s April court appearance in New York drew a circus-like atmosphere of vocal supporters and protesters, and officials in Miami are bracing for crowds of up to 50,000 people.
US special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the prosecution, accuses Trump of taking thousands of papers containing some of the nation’s most sensitive national-security secrets when he left the White House in January 2021 and storing them in a haphazard manner at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, according to a grand jury indictment released last week.
Experts say it could be a year or more before a trial takes place, due to the complexities of handling classified evidence.
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