Trump has now been charged in three separate criminal cases. Here's the status of each
, where a county district attorney is investigating the former President’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election result in that state.Federal prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith have accused Trump of trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election to falsely claim victory.
In the 45-page indictment, the Justice Department accused Trump of repeatedly lying about election malfeasance even though he knew those claims were false. It alleges that multiple administration officials told him there was no widespread fraud that would have changed the election outcome, including Pence, senior DOJ officials, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and senior White House attorneys.
Trump has not yet appeared in court to enter a plea, but he's expected to plead not guilty. In a Truth Social post published shortly before the DOJ announced the charges, Trump called the indictment “fake” and accused Smith of trying to “interfere” with the 2024 election.Trump has been summoned for his initial court appearance in the case on Aug. 3 before a magistrate judge in Federal District Court in Washington. A trial date has not yet been set.U.S. District Judge Tanya S.
with a conspiracy to obstruct the government’s repeated attempts to reclaim the classified material from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where the documents were stored haphazardly. Smith's team claimed that Trump directed Walt Nauta, one of his personal aides, to move boxes so the FBI and Trump’s own lawyer would not discover some of the classified material. Prosecutors say that Trump showed classified documents to individuals who were not authorized to view them on at least two occasions.
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