World / Crime & Legal Jul 18, 2023
Trump says he’s a target in special counsel’s investigation into Jan. 6
The development is a sign that he is likely to be indicted in the case.
The development is a sign that he is likely to be indicted in the case.
The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, is the first time in American history a former president has faced federal charges.
Trump was indicted last week on charges connected to a hush money payment to a porn star — becoming the first former American president to face criminal charges.
Mike Pence was at the center of then-U.S. President Donald Trump’s last gasp to hold on to power in the two months after his election loss.
The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers.
The filing paints the clearest picture yet of the department’s effort to retrieve the documents before taking the extraordinary step of searching a former president’s private property.
The search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home was spurred by the discovery that he had kept classified material related to the use of human sources in intelligence gathering.
The government tried repeatedly for more than a year and a half to get the former president to give back documents from his time in office. Finally, it resorted to a search of his property.
Government documents that Trump had accumulated were with him in two dozen boxes in the White House residence. They were to go to the National Archives. Some ended up in Florida.
Federal prosecutors sought information about the former president’s role in the efforts to overturn the election as the inquiry accelerates.