Trump Indicted Trump Expected to Surrender on Tuesday After Indictment in Documents Case
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Via: hallux • 2 years ago • 17 commentsBy: Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, William K. Rashbaum and Ben Protess - NYT
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Former President Donald J. Trump’s initial appearance to face federal criminal charges on allegations that he mishandled classified documents after leaving office and obstructed the government’s efforts to reclaim them will be before a judge he placed on the bench.
Mr. Trump is expected to appear in Federal District Court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon on charges including willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon is scheduled to preside over that initial hearing, according to people familiar with the matter. It was not clear whether Judge Cannon, who was criticized by a higher court for handing him a series of unusually favorable rulings during the early stages of the investigation, would remain assigned for the entirety of Mr. Trump’s case.
The indictment, handed up by a grand jury in the Federal District Court in Miami , is the first time a former president has faced federal charges. It puts the nation in an extraordinary position, given Mr. Trump’s status not only as a one-time commander in chief but also as the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to face President Biden, whose administration will now be seeking to convict his potential rival of multiple felonies.
“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been indicted,” Mr. Trump wrote, in one of several posts on Truth Social after he was notified of the charges on Thursday evening.
The indictment, filed by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith , came about two months after local prosecutors in New York filed more than 30 felony charges against Mr. Trump in connection with a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election. The Justice Department made no comment and did not immediately make the indictment public.
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A federal grand jury has charged Mr. Trump with a total of seven counts , according to two people familiar with the indictment. The precise details of the charges are not yet clear.
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The indictment reaches back to the end of Mr. Trump’s term in January 2021 , when the documents — many of which were said to be in the White House residence — were packed in boxes along with clothes, gifts, photographs and other material, and shipped by the General Services Administration to his private club and residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.
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Two lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, have left Mr. Trump’s legal team , and will no longer represent him in the documents case. “I will be represented by Todd Blanche, Esq., and a firm to be named later,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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A recording of a meeting involving Mr. Trump in July 2021, six months after leaving the White House, is expected to be a key piece of evidence against him. During that meeting, he described a document in front of him as “classified” and “highly confidential,” according to a person briefed on the matter.
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Mr. Trump remains under investigation by the federal counsel’s office for his wide-ranging efforts to retain power after his election loss in 2020, and how those efforts led to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He is also being scrutinized for potential election interference by the district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Ga. Read more about the various investigations.
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We all remember Aileen from being reprimanded by her superiors. This should be fun!
Short lived fun. I would expect a petition filed on Monday to the Court of Appeals to get her to recuse herself. I doubt that she will remain the judge assigned all the way thru this case.
I can live with that, I have history courses to catch up on.
Surrender, eh? He'll drive up to the courthouse in his fancy limousine with his SS detail
I think those two lawyers knew to jump ship. It seems like to me the audio recordings are the most damaging.
Wouldn't this judge have a conflict of interest after having been involved in previous happenings?
it's just trump's arraignment, but fair to say that both sides wouldn't mind if aileen was floating off the coast...
The Indictment:
man, reading thru the indictment it sure does seem bad for Trump. It's one thing to be in possession of classified documents. That was even explained before where it was talked about the chaos in the office of the President & Vice President when they were running for re-election and lost and how the process is so rushed that it's easy for classified documents to get shoved into boxes and sent to the president rather than the national archives.
But the recordings where Trump himself states that the documents are still classified while he's showing them to people without a security clearance? He's quoted in a recording that "as president I could have declassified it," and "now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret." Only thing I can think of is that he though he was so popular and loved that nobody would turn on him...
Some of the charges I think are kind of lame. It accuses Trump of storing classified records haphazardly, but that sort of pales in the sight of Biden having classified documents in his garage and library.
I don't know where this will end up. I almost wish Trump would listen to Maddow and go to the DOJ to propose a deal. He drops out of the race and they drop most of the charges and go for easy ones only...
Maybe someday you will respond appropriately to what is posted but I guess not today. Your snipe is getting rather old, you should look for some new material as what you have now is old and lame.
No. That would only reinforce the idea that he's above the law, to which too many people already cling.
yup. he needs to end up rotting in a hole without any of the trappings of his former life. I do think it's pretty funny that trump got ensnared by laws created because of the last disgraced republican POTUS.
Obama was not a Republican
I'm actually starting to miss the old P, D and D bullshit s/
still looking for his real birth certificate?
Nope..never was
You?