donald trump He will appear Tuesday before a court of Miami accused of having kept confidential documents after leaving the White Housebut continues to have the support of his followers for the 2024 presidential elections.
The billionaire, who aims to return to power in 2024, faces 37 charges, including “illegal withholding of information related to national security”, “obstruction of justice” and “false testimony”.
Boxes of documents he kept — some of them stored in a bathroom — contain nuclear secrets, according to the 44-page indictment unsealed Friday.
Violate national security laws “puts our country in danger” said special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation for months.
The 76-year-old real estate magnate considers himself the victim of a “Witch hunt” intended to obstruct his presidential candidacy and points the accusing finger at “the radical left”.
For the moment, the Republicans are closing ranks around him, but some personalities have declared themselves surprised by the content of the documents.
Among them his former Justice Minister Bill Barr, who has become one of his detractors. On Sunday he said he was struck by “the degree of sensitivity of these documents and by how many there were.”
“If only half of this is true, then (he) is burned.” he told Fox News. “It’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning.” added.
judicial entanglements
It is the first time that a former US president has been indicted at the federal level. But Trump has already been charged with accounting fraud by New York state courts over a payment made before the 2016 presidential election to silence an X-movie actress who says she was his mistress.
On Monday morning, Trump said he was preparing to go to Miami, where he will appear Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) in federal court. According to one of his lawyers, he will plead not guilty.
He himself announced last week that he was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, the eve of his birthday. 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 keeping state secrets in unauthorized and insecure places.
In January 2021, when he left the White House to live in his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, Donald Trump took dozens of boxes full of files with him. And according to the indictment, he did everything he could to keep them despite the fact that the courts asked him to return them.
The impact the case will have on his chances of becoming the Republican presidential nominee is unknown.
Many of his followers are convinced that he is the victim of a plot and support him, but it is not ruled out that the fact that the documents are linked to national security could harm him.
In a recent survey by the YouGov Institute, only half of those surveyed consider it serious to falsify accounting documents to buy the silence of a porn actress about an alleged affair.
But two-thirds of those surveyed believe that taking secret defense documents from the White House and hindering authorities’ attempts to recover them is serious. The tycoon’s legal problems are not limited to these cases.
A Georgia prosecutor will announce the outcome of an investigation into whether Trump pushed to try to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, won by Democrat Joe Biden, by September.
In Miami, the authorities have reinforced security after calls on social networks to defend Trump, who after his appearance will leave for New Jersey, where at night he will deliver a speech from his Bedminster golf club.
Source: AFP
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