Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk voiced concerns about the indictment of former President Donald Trump on his social media platform Thursday night.
“There does seem to be far higher interest in pursuing Trump compared to other people in politics,” Musk tweeted. “Very important that the justice system rebut what appears to be differential enforcement or they will lose public trust.”
Trump himself had announced the indictment on his own social media platform Truth Social ahead of the official announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice.
“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 posted.
The case is the second of three potential historic indictments of a former U.S. President, following 34 felony counts filed in New York against Trump involving the falsification of business records, charges on which Trump pleaded not guilty.
Trump is also expected to be indicted in Georgia for violations in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election.
The DOJ’s case involves Trump’s refusal to return classified documents that include information about some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets, according to court documents.
Among the information contained in the documents: details on U.S.
nuclear weapon assets, military concerns about the country’s weaknesses, and in at least one case, a potential attack plan against an undisclosed foreign country, drawn up at Trump’s insistence according to a recording set to be included as evidence.
The indictment alleges that Trump repeatedly had the hundreds of boxes moved around his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort where he also makes his residence as well as put on planes to travel with him across the country, storing them in multiple unsecured locations including “a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room,” all while ignoring a subpoena to return them.
While the Manhattan case is for violations of state law, the DOJ’s documents case is the first ever federal indictment of a former Commander-In-Chief.
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