Every indication is that government lawyers have been busy building a case. Smith was not even involved in the case at that point. This could come into play if prosecutors conclude that Trump or his aides intentionally tried to impede their inquiry – by moving boxes around so prosecutors wouldn’t find classified documents, by possibly questioning complying with subpoenas including for surveillance tapes that prosecutors believe captured the movement of the boxes, by failing to fully comply with a subpoena, or by falsely swearing that all classified files had been returned. The third is, which is obstruction of justice.But it provides a roadmap of possible charges – because when seeking the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, prosecutors needed to convince a judge there was probable cause that they’d find evidence of these crimes. However, that was before Smith took over the probe as special counsel, and it doesn’t mean these are the only possible crimes. Prosecutors revealed the specific statutes that they were investigating when they searched Mar-a-Lago last year, a search that uncovered dozens of classified documents, even after Trump’s team swore they turned everything over. The following comes from CNN’s Marshall Cohen: “All conspiracy means is an agreement between two or more people to violate the law, a meeting of the minds,” said Elie Honig, a senior CNN legal analyst and former assistant US attorney, appearing on CNN Thursday night. There are some other things we can infer, including that people other than Trump are likely to face charges. Fact check: Seven of Trump’s false or unsupported claims on the documents investigation.The big numbers from the Mar-a-Lago search.
Timeline: The special counsel inquiry into Trump’s handling of classified documents.Donald Trump’s criminal cases, explained.Trump indicted on 7 counts in classified documents probe.Trump is facing a charge under the Espionage Act, his attorney Jim Trusty said on CNN Thursday, as well as charges of obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements. We know that there are seven counts, and according to CNN’s reporting, one of them is related to a conspiracy allegation. The major difference in the Trump case is that he actively tried for around a year to keep from handing documents over to the National Archives, which owns them after a president leaves office.
And there is a special counsel investigating that too. Wasn’t classified material also found in President Joe Biden’s home? Smith is also overseeing other investigations related to Trump, including those regarding the January 6, 2021, insurrection and the 2020 election. Why isn’t Trump being charged in connection with January 6 or his effort to overturn the 2020 election? The new indictment involves completely different charges, brought by the federal government and related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. Trump was indicted back in March by the Manhattan district attorney on state charges related to hush-money payments to a former adult-film star in 2016. We are, as is so often the case with Trump, in uncharted territory.Īnother indictment? Wasn’t he already indicted?
#INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT US PRESIDENTS TRIAL#
Maybe the trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr for treason in 1807 is an analog, but probably not. Neither has the front-runner for president from a major political party. No former president has been charged with a federal crime. Here are some of the answers we have so far: And we may not know much more until next Tuesday, when Trump has been ordered to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m. Jack Smith, the special counsel coordinating federal investigations related to the former president, has never spoken publicly about what federal prosecutors have been doing in the nearly one year since FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. He’s been indicted on seven counts, CNN reported. Former President Donald Trump’s announcement on his social media platform that he has been indicted by the US Department of Justice raised more questions than it answered.
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