US, Donald Trump indicted for secret documents stolen from the White House

Donald Trump has been indicted in connection with confidential documents he took from the White House at the end of his term as president, he announced on social media. “The corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorney that I have been indicted, apparently for fraud. I never thought such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States… I am an innocent man,” he wrote in Truth.

Trump is due to appear in federal court in Miami. The investigation opened for over a year into Trump does not only concern the documents that remain in his possession, his knowledge, but also the fact that he has ignored formal requests to return all classified material still in his possession and the possible obstruction of the FBI’s efforts to have the documents returned to the National Archives and Records Administration. At first, in January of last year. Trump returned 15 boxes containing more than 200 classified documents. Urged to do so, the Trump team later returned another 30 documents and a letter assuring that, after a thorough search, this was all that turned up. But the FBI had information that there were other confidential documents in Trump’s possession and that is why it obtained a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago’s residence, which took place at the beginning of last August. On that occasion, more than a hundred other classified and top secret documents were found. Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed in November to oversee the investigation into Trump’s documents and actions after his defeat in the 2020 election to remain in office. “This is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. We are a country in serious and rapid decline, but together we will make America Great again,” Trump added, repeating his usual slogan.