The former U.S. president and candidate for the 2024 election donald trump has an appointment with Justice in Miami this Tuesday at 2 p.m. (1 p.m. in Ecuador). to be notified of the 37 charges a grand jury has brought against him for allegedly withholding and concealing classified documents at his Florida home.

Of the 37 charges he has to answer for, 31 match the crime classified as deliberate withholding of national defense information.

The others are for Conspiracy to obstruct justice, “corrupt” concealment of a document or record, concealment of a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations.

According to the 49-page indictment document, the most serious crimes charged against Trump, such as obstruction of justice and conspiracy, They are punishable by up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. and the less serious ones, such as conspiracy to hide, with 5 years in prison and the same fine.

The investigation, led by special counsel Jack Smith, began in 2022 after a search by FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.

They found more than 11,000 official documents, 100 of which were classified as secret or “top secret”.

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The indictment says there were documents related to the “nuclear weapons in the United States” and the “nuclear capabilities of a foreign country”.

They also found documents from White House intelligence briefings, including some detailing the military capabilities of the United States and other countries.

That’s what the prosecutors say Trump showed that material to people who didn’t have security clearance to view it and later tried to hide it from his own lawyers. as they attempted to comply with federal requirements to find and return documents.

Mar-a-Lago “was not an authorized place for the storage, possession, display or discussion of classified documents,” according to the file describing the charges.

Last week, a grand jury convened in Miami’s federal courts that had been hearing witnesses called by the prosecution since mid-May and heard about the evidence gathered by Smith’s team stipulates that Trump will be indicted on all 37 criminal charges that Judge Jonathan Goodman will inform you this Tuesday.

This judge is not the one who will hear Trump’s case, a task that fell to Judge Aileen Cannon, a native of Colombia and precisely named by the former president, who claims to be innocent and attributes the accusation to a “great witch hunt” launched by the current US president, Democrat Joe Biden.

Cannon was criticized for his handling of the case in the early stages, in particular for approving a request from the former president’s lawyers for a special expert to review official documents found at Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department won an appeal against that decision, so the appointed expert, Raymond Dearie, had to leave his assignment last December without completing it.

Along with Trump, who will be joined by attorneys Chris Kise and Todd Blanche, Waltine Nauta, a military aide from the days of his presidency (2017-2021) who was seen moving boxes of official documents at Mar-a-Lake .

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Special Prosecutor Smith, in charge of the investigation, said last Friday when the case file was unsealed that the law applies to everyone and that he will seek a speedy trial. He also asked the public to read the indictment document to understand “the scope and gravity of the crimes charged.”

This new prosecution, the first to bring a president or former president of the United States to federal court, follows Trump’s indictment in a non-federal court in Manhattan, New York, for alleged irregular payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In that case, he faces 34 counts in connection with the $130,000 he paid Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up the sexual relationship they had a decade earlier. The trial is scheduled for March 2024.

Trump is also under investigation for his actions on the eve of the capture of the Capitol by a mob of his supporters on January 6, 2021 to prevent Congress from ratifying Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, which the former president said was a “robbery”.

In addition, a New York jury convicted Trump last May pay $5 million in damages to the writer E. Jean Carroll for sexually assaulting her years ago and for later defaming her when she publicly denounced the facts.