Former US President donald trump He faces 37 charges, including “withholding national security information” and “obstruction of justice” in the case of the White House documents, according to the indictment made public Friday.

The former Republican president, who took boxes of files with him when he left Washington, is also charged with perjury and collusion with his aide Walt Nauta to conceal documents requested by federal police.

The documents Donald Trump took with him when he left the White House contain US nuclear secrets, according to the indictment, which was made public on Friday.

“The secret documents that Trump kept in boxes contained information about the defense capabilities of the United States and abroad” and “about the nuclear programs” of the United States, the document said. Its potential “proliferation would have endangered the national security of the United States,” prosecutors add.

Change of defenders

That same Friday, two of the lawyers representing him resigned after accusing Trump of handling classified documents, a case for which, according to the former president himself, a former aide of his will soon be charged.

“This morning we tendered our resignations as advisers to President Trump and will no longer represent him in the case in which he was indicted or in the January 6 investigation,” attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley said in a statement issued by the US media. .

Trump mentioned on his social network, Truth Social, the changes to his legal team, without specifying that it was a layoff.

“I thank Jim Trusty and John Rowley for their work. They were facing a very dishonest, corrupt, diabolical and sick group of people, the likes of which had never been seen before,” he stressed.

Trump says he will be represented in “the greatest witch hunt of all time, now headed to the Florida courts” by Todd Blanche, an attorney who was already part of his New York legal team, and who will be added “in the coming days” other lawyers.

in court on Tuesday

On Thursday, Trump himself reported that he had been charged in the case of classified documents he illegally took to his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, when he left the White House.

The former president has been charged in a Miami court with seven federal crimes, including illegal holding of government secrets, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. His trial in court is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Trump expected in Truth Social on Friday that a second person will be charged in this case, Walt Nauta, a military aide who worked for him during his presidency.

“He has done a fantastic job. They are trying to destroy his life and the lives of many others, hoping that he will say bad things about ‘Trump.’ He is strong, brave and a great patriot. The FBI and the Justice Department are CORRUPT,” noted the ex-governor.

Trump, a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, was charged in March by a court in Manhattan, New York, with irregular payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign. This was the first criminal charge against a former US president.