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Tracking the Trump criminal cases: Latest on legal charges and key players [1]
['Politico Staff']
Date: 2024-06
Federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith, have accused Trump of taking highly sensitive national security documents when he left the White House in January 2021. He stashed those documents haphazardly throughout his Mar-a-Lago resort and obstructed the government’s repeated attempts to retrieve them, prosecutors allege. On at least two occasions, Trump showed classified documents to individuals who were not authorized to view them, prosecutors say. During one of those episodes — which was audio-recorded — Trump allegedly displayed a top-secret military plan of attack while telling visitors, “As president I could have declassified it” but “now I can’t,” adding that the document he was showing them was “still a secret.”
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Investigation Indictment Trial Verdict Appeal Dropped
In early 2022, the Justice Department opened an investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents after his presidency. In June 2022, a Trump lawyer avowed that Trump had turned over all classified records, but two months later, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and seized 102 documents with classified markings. Smith was appointed in November 2022 to lead the investigation, and for months, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., reviewed evidence and heard testimony — including testimony from some of Trump’s own lawyers.
Smith’s team then sought an indictment from a grand jury in Florida. On June 9, 2023, that indictment was unsealed, charging Trump with 37 felonies and his longtime aide, Walt Nauta, with six felonies. Trump pleaded not guilty.
On July 27, 2023, Smith’s team unveiled a revised indictment, known as a “superseding” indictment, adding three new felony charges against Trump and two new felony charges against Nauta. The superseding indictment also added a third defendant: Carlos De Oliveira, a Mar-a-Lago employee who was charged with four felonies. The superseding indictment included new allegations that Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira sought to destroy security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago after investigators tried to obtain the footage.
A trial is scheduled for May 20, 2024, in Fort Pierce, Florida, but Judge Aileen Cannon is widely expected to postpone it.
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