KANSAS CITY – Donald J. Trump was arrested and booked into custody on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami, and formerly charged on 37 felony counts.
Trump is accused of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate after leaving the White House in 2021, and then scheming and lying to thwart government efforts to recover them.
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Trump faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act. Other charges include: conspiracy to obstruct justice; corruptly concealing a document or record; concealing a document in a federal investigation; and making false statements.
Each of the willful retention counts pertains to a specific classified document found at Mar-A-Lago marked “SECRET” or “TOP SECRET." Topics addressed in the documents include details about U.S. nuclear weapons, the nuclear capabilities of a foreign country and the military activities or capabilities of other countries.
In bringing the charges, Justice Department prosecutors relied upon photographs from the Mar-a-Lago hotel, surveillance video, text messages between staffers, Trump’s own words, those of his lawyers, and other evidence.
An aide to Trump, Walt Nauta, was charged as a co-conspirator with six felony counts.
Trump is expected to be arrested and arraigned before a federal judge on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida.