Donald Trump travels to Miami to face felony charges
The United States’ former President Donald Trump travels to Florida to face criminal charges of unlawfully keeping national-security documents.
Trump is set to appear before a Miami federal court for the first time on Tuesday. He faces 37 felony counts related to charges of illegal stealing of classified information after leaving the White House in 2021.
Prosecutors on Friday accused the former president of risking some of the country’s most sensitive security secrets, including some about nuclear secrets and military plans.
Trump, who is again the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, mishandled classified documents that included information about the furtive US nuclear program and potential domestic vulnerabilities in the event of an attack, the federal indictment said.
If convicted, the maximum prison time he would face is 20 years for obstruction of justice..
Trump, however, proclaimed his innocence, saying the “baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration’s weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country.”
“I will never yield. I will never be deterred,” he said. “We’re going to evict a totally corrupt president named Joe Biden from the White House.”
And he wrote on his Truth Social social-media platform before his plane took off for Miami, "I HOPE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS WATCHING WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT ARE DOING TO AMERICA."
He claims he has been the victim of "one witch hunt and phony investigation after another."
The former president is also under federal investigation over his role in the January 6, 2021 US Capitol riot.
He is the first former or current president to face criminal charges.
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