WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump repeated his unsubstantiated statements and accusations about a “witch hunt” this Saturday in his first electoral event after being accused of having taken dozens of boxes with classified material to his Florida mansion.
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Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, portrayed himself as a victim to hundreds of his supporters at a rally in the state of Georgia.
“This ridiculous and baseless accusation leveled against me by Joe Biden’s Justice Department will go down as the worst abuse of power in the history of our country,” the former president said in a speech riddled with false claims.
The attendees, many dressed in Trump’s characteristic red caps, reacted with applause to the former president’s words and did not hesitate to boo when the Republican referred to the US president, Democrat Joe Biden.
Biden, who has already announced that he will run for re-election in 2024, has not yet positioned himself on Trump’s new indictment, the second after he was already indicted in March of this year in New York for a case of tax fraud.
Trump’s appearance this Saturday was the first since the indictment of the Attorney for the Southern District of Florida was made public on Friday, detailing the 37 charges for the alleged commission of seven federal crimes of which he is The former president is accused of his mishandling of classified material.
Photos included in his federal criminal indictments show the former president’s mishandling of classified documents at his home in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, after leaving power in 2021, Trump ordered the transfer from the White House to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago dozens of boxes with newspaper clippings, letters, photos and also hundreds of classified documents, including information on nuclear secrets. and plans to attack other countries.
Those documents were not stored securely, but instead ended up in different corners of the Trump mansion, including a bedroom, a ballroom and a bathroom, photos included in the indictment show.
Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, all of a president’s documents are public property of the government and not private, so when Trump left the White House he should have turned over the classified documents to the National Archives, in charge of their custody.
Special counsel Jack Smith reiterated the more than 30 charges former President Donald Trump faces over classified documents found at his Florida mansion. To see more from Telemundo, visit
A few months after Trump left the White House, the National Archives discovered that they had not been given all of the classified documents from his Presidency, and when the former president would not return them, they ended up going to the FBI, which resulted in the opening of an investigation. judicial investigation.
In August 2022, the FBI ended up searching the former president’s mansion to seize the boxes of classified documents that were still in his custody.
Despite the intervention of the FBI, according to the indictment, Trump could have endangered the security of the United States not only because the documents were not stored securely, but also because the former president showed them to unauthorized people to see them.
Specifically, in 2021, Trump gave an interview to an author who was writing a book and allegedly showed him an “attack plan” against a country and also showed an individual linked to his electoral campaign a map related to a military operation. .
Due to these facts, the ex-president is summoned to testify on Tuesday in a federal court in Miami.
