The Trump indictment related to the handling of classified documents and the governments attempts to retrieve them has been unsealed.
Trump indictmentA 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump for willfully retaining classified government records and conspiring to prevent their return to U.S. officials was unsealed Friday.
The charging document, which among other things alleges Trump kept records containing national defense information from federal officials, was made public a day after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Miami.
Among other allegations, the indictment says that Trump showed classified documents to other people in the summer of 2021, after leaving office.
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One of those documents was a “plan of attack” that he said was prepared by the Pentagon.The other was a classified map related to a military operation, the indictment alleges.
Also charged in the indictment was Trump’s valet, Walter Nauta, who faces several of the same charges as his boss, with whom he allegedly conspired to keep classified records and hide them from a federal grand jury. The indictment said that Trump was personally involved in packing up boxes of documents as he prepared to vacate the White House to his home at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago last August discovered hundreds of classified documents, which he had failed to turn over to U.S. officials despite a year or so of efforts to recover them.
