Donald Trump is now the first former president in US history to be indicted by the federal justice system, is also facing charges of obstruction of justice and perjury. A 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump for retaining classified government records and conspiring to prevent their return to U.S. officials was unsealed Friday.
A day after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Miami, the charging sheet was made available to the public.
Due to his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, two of his attorneys quit representing him in the case involving the classified papers and another ongoing federal criminal probe.
Among other allegations, the indictment says that Trump showed classified documents to other people in the summer of 2021, after leaving office.
One of those documents was a “plan of attack” that he said was prepared by the Pentagon, while the other was a classified map related to a military operation, the indictment alleges.
Also charged in the indictment was Trump’s valet, Walter Nauta, who faces several of the same charges as his boss, with whom he allegedly conspired to keep classified records and hide them from a federal grand jury.
The FBI raid of Trump’s Florida home last August discovered hundreds of classified documents, which he had failed to turn over to U.S. officials despite months of efforts to recover them.
