Trump reportedly faces 7 counts around refusing to give back the documents, allegedly making false statements, an Espionage Act violation, and more. The indictment is not yet public.
Trump has already been indicted by a New York grand jury for a different state matter, but a federal indictment from the Department of Justice overseen by President Joe Biden, an opposing political opponent, is unprecedented ground for U.S. politics.
Trump went on to call this a “dark day” for the nation.
“This is indeed a DARK DAY for the United States of America,” he said. “We are a Country in serious and rapid Decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!”
Trump’s lawyers, who met with the Department of Justice Monday, were reportedly informed by the DOJ that the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents may be indicting him as early as this week.
DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith is leading the inquiry.
Critics have been outspoken in particular because former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was long under scrutiny for her alleged mishandling of classified information and deleted emails, was never indicted.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke out after the indictment.
“It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him. Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades,” he wrote on Twitter. “I, and every American who believes in the rule of law, stand with President Trump against this grave injustice. House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable.”
So far, Biden has not been indicted.
“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is ‘secured’ by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time,” Trump wrote online Thursday.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, called the indictment “election interference.”
“A corrupt Biden Justice Department indictment of Trump could undo our Republic,” he wrote on Twitter.
The FBI raided Trump-owned properties over classified documents last year that spiked his poll numbers and raised accusations of politicization of the justice system. Investigators have continued gathering evidence, though, raising concerns that the leading Republican presidential candidate may have real criminal troubles on his hands going into the election.
When asked about a Trump indictment, former Attorney General Bill Barr told CBS on Tuesday, “I suspect it is near.”
Trump has repeatedly criticized the investigations against him, calling them a coordinated attack to keep him from getting elected.
“Wow, this is turning out to be the greatest & most vicious instance of ELECTION INTERFERENCE in the history of our Country,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “Remember, I’m leading DeSanctimonious BIG in the Polls but, more importantly, I’m leading Biden by a lot. Also, & perhaps most importantly, they are launching all of the many Fake Investigations against me RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CAMPAIGN, something which is unheard of & not supposed to happen. DOJ, FBI, NEW YORK A.G., NEW YORK D.A., ATLANTA D.A. FASCISTS ALL!”
Casey Harper
D.C. Bureau Reporter
Casey Harper is a Senior Reporter for the Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill, and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business, and USA Today.
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No one has the right to take U.S.A. battle plans to there personal home, not even a former president.
This makes EVERY Patriot unsafe and gives our secrets to the CCP. He needs to do some real time for this or else Sleepy Joe will do the same and worse.
Sad to say but Trump is going down. Time for a new leader for our Republic who can keep secrets secret.
There appears to be no system in place to safeguard these so-called secret documents. So far Biden, Trump, Pense, Hillary–they ALL had or have these documents scattered about. It’s ridiculous to just make Trump the example to prosecute. All the prosecute Trump stuff comes from a handful of people including Pelosi and Hillary. the twin mean girls of DC.
I think Trump is more weak than anything else. And now he goes and he sits down and—if they can find a chair for him, because it’s not that easy—and he sits down and he just bloviates and it’s disgraceful. He’s so fat it’s actually unpatriotic. It’s so bad for our country. Just so bad, but yet he’s got a lot of hatred. The citizens of our Republic fired him for just not doing his job.
Sure there is. Suggest you educate yourself.
Those documents belong to the tax-paying CITIZENS of this Great Republic, not the lifelong loser who illegally stole them and then lied about it.
LOCK HIM UP.
About time. What a loser.
And anyone who disagrees is a loser and a sap and a homo.
Look who’s mouthing off. LMAO!
Way to self-identify as a homo. ROTFLMAO!!!