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Former President Trump – long deemed Teflon Don for his ability to dodge legal matters – is facing a series of serious criminal charges brought by the Justice Department, which unsealed a 37-count indictment on Friday related to his handling of classified documents. The indictment is Trump's second this year, but it's his first time facing federal charges, itself a history-making status for a former president. |
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BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
Donald Trump has been charged with 37 counts in relation to the mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago as well as his efforts to block the government from recovering the documents. An indictment unsealed by the Justice Department Friday underscores the high-level material the former president kept after leaving office, the times he improperly shared it with those without clearances and the extent he sought to block any efforts to retrieve them. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS, REBECCA BEITSCH, JARED GANS AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
The Justice Department on Friday unveiled a 37-count indictment against former President Trump over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, offering up an expansive look at the evidence prosecutors collected. The 49-page document provides significant insight into the nature of the classified documents Trump had kept since leaving the White House in January 2021, allegations about Trump's moves to obstruct attempts to retrieve the documents and details about instances where Trump is said to have openly shared sensitive government secrets. |
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Former President Trump on Friday took to Truth Social to rage against a 49-page indictment that laid out in extensive detail the federal case against him over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House. In a series of social media posts, Trump railed against special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the investigation of the former president, and compared his own handling of classified materials with that of President Biden, despite distinct differences in the two cases. |
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said the federal indictment of former President Trump will "disrupt the nation," arguing that it violates the principle of equal justice under the law. McCarthy said in an interview with Fox News on Friday that other public officials, like President Biden, also possessed documents they should not, but the other officials are not facing charges like Trump is. |
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| Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Friday said the charges contained in a 37-count indictment brought by Justice Department (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith against former President Trump are "quite serious and cannot be casually dismissed." Murkowski, who says the Republican Party needs to move past Trump and was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict him on an impeachment charge in 2021, said in a statement that "mishandling classified documents is a federal crime because it can expose national secrets, as well as the sources and methods they were obtained through." |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS, REBECCA BEITSCH, JARED GANS AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
Details of the Justice Department's months-long investigation into former President Trump's handling of classified documents went public on Friday after prosecutors successfully sought an indictment. Trump is set to make his first court appearance on Tuesday afternoon in Miami to face 37 federal criminal charges. Here are five takeaways from the federal indictment. |
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After a more than yearlong investigation, former President Trump has been charged with more than three dozen criminal counts related to his continued possession of classified and sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago property after leaving the White House. Most of the charges Trump is facing are counts of willful retention of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917. He is also facing charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheming to conceal and making false statements and representations. |
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A surprising Voting Rights Act decision at the Supreme Court has added a new dimension to the fight for House control ahead of the 2024 election cycle. The ruling paves the way for the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district in Alabama, but it is also likely to impact voting map fights in states like Louisiana and Georgia. |
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Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson stepped down as a member of Parliament on Friday, according to media reports. The announcement came after Johnson was told he would be sanctioned for misleading Parliament about parties and gatherings at his office during the COVID-19 lockdowns, according to The Associated Press. "I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear — much to my amazement — that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament," he said in a resignation statement. |
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OPINION | Leading senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have made it clear that they soon will seek a defense and Ukraine supplemental spending bill for fiscal year 2024. But many members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus beg to differ — they staunchly oppose both an increase in defense spending and more money for Ukraine. Earlier this week, the Freedom Caucus demonstrated its clout by blocking debate on bills that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had planned to bring to the House floor. The 206-220 vote that defeated the procedural House rule and the ability of the Freedom Caucus to block all floor votes for the remainder of the week were unambiguous signals that the Caucus both resented the debt-ceiling agreement that McCarthy had reached with President Biden and would not countenance any add-ons to debt levels that it already considers too high. Yet that is exactly what an emergency supplemental would do. |
OPINION | Just in time for summer vacation, gas prices are rising and American families are bracing for sticker shock. OPEC is doing its part to keep prices high by cutting production, and the Biden administration continues to hobble domestic production. That trip to Yellowstone National Park (or Destin, Fla., for that matter) is about to get a lot more expensive. But it doesn't have to. Unleashing Texas energy production would bring down gas prices and help address the inflation pressures being felt at every kitchen table now. It might come at the expense of President Biden's progressive base, but for a president who has often been desperate to distance himself from the pain at the pump, it could be a grand bargain. |
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BY MAGGIE HABERMAN AND JONATHAN SWAN |
Former President Donald J. Trump was gathered with his core political advisers in the office near his poolside cottage at his club in Bedminster, N.J., when his phone rang around 7 p.m. on Thursday. On the line, according to two people with knowledge of the call, was one of his lawyers, informing him he had been indicted for the second time in less than three months. |
BY ISAAC ARNSDORF AND AMY GARDNER |
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Laurie Wood was in the hotel elevator when she saw the text alert on her phone: Donald Trump had been indicted. "Here we go again," she thought. |
BY ALEXANDER WARD AND LARA SELIGMAN |
The unsealed indictment on former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has current and former national security officials claiming the case is "devastating" against him and that "damage" may have been done to U.S. national security. |
WASHINGTON—Democrats in the House and Senate introduced a bill Friday that would overhaul the debt-ceiling process, eager to capitalize on widespread anxiety in the party regarding the regular brinkmanship over the country's borrowing limit. |
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