Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami Monday to appear before a local federal court in the case of handling classified documents.

The former president is accused of keeping confidential documents after his departure from the White House. Among the charges against him are “illegal withholding of information pertaining to national security”, “obstruction of justice” and “false testimony”.

Among the documents he kept are nuclear secrets, according to the 44-page indictment that was unsealed Friday.

Donald Trump took nuclear secret documents with him when he left the presidency of the United States

Violating national security laws “endangers our country,” said Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the investigation for months.

This is the first time a former president has been prosecuted at the federal level, but Trump has already been charged with accounting fraud by a New York court over a payment made before the 2016 presidential election for silencing an X-movie actress who says that she was his lover.

One of Trump’s lawyers expected him to plead not guilty. In the United States, a law requires presidents to send all their emails, letters, and other working documents to the National Archives, and another prohibits the keeping of state secrets in unauthorized and unsafe places.

The impact the case will have on his chances of becoming the Republican presidential nominee is unknown.

Due to the repercussions of the case, a group of press media has asked federal court in Miami to allow a limited number of photos and videos inside the building.

He also requests the audios of tomorrow’s apparition, in which the accusation will be read, and in future hearings of the case.

Former US President Donald Trump says he has been charged in an investigation of classified documents

“As the Court knows, this is the first federal indictment against a former president of the United States. The interest of the American public in this matter is not exaggerated,” said the media coalition’s petition, which has already been incorporated into the file.

The coalition includes Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NBC Universal, CBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, Dow Jones & Company, Telemundo, Univision, Bloomberg, and Politico, among others.

In its petition, the press coalition believes that while it is not allowed in ordinary cases, “the special and historic nature of this case warrants at least a limited and undistorting visual report before the hearing begins.”

Therefore, it asks the court to “allow a limited number of photos and video recordings in the courtroom and/or the outer corridor before the arraignment” and calls it a local rule that leaves the matter to the judge.

Secondly, immediately after arraignment tomorrow and in future proceedings in this case, the coalition is asking the court to make public any recordings made with the court’s proprietary audio recording technology to ensure the accuracy of the information.

“This is a matter of exceptional public interest for the whole country and beyond,” the media emphasize.

Miami Mayor Francis Suárez has announced that some streets next to federal offices in downtown Miami will be closed.

Suárez said there has been no threat of any kind and that local police are taking into account the call for protests by supporters and opponents of the former president for tomorrow, where he defended the right to protest but asked for them to be carried out peaceful.

The US Secret Service, charged with ensuring the safety of former presidents, had unsuccessfully suggested that Trump travel Tuesday morning.

The Miami-Dade County Police Department, where Miami is located, has expressed a similar vein, adding that they have not received any request from federal authorities to provide security support so far.

From Trump National Doral Miami, the former president (2017-2021) will leave tomorrow for the courthouse, where he will enter through an underground tunnel and where US Marshal agents will take his fingerprints, according to NBC 6.