Trump calls his indictment an “egregious abuse of power”

The ex-president donald trump and favorite to be the Republican candidate for the White House in 2024, described this Tuesday as “wicked and egregious abuse of power” his indictment in a federal court of Miami for the way in which he managed secret government documents.

Before supporters gathered at his golf club in New JerseyTrump crossed out his successor, the Democrat Joe Bidenof “corrupt” and accused him of lashing out at him, “his main political adversary” facing the presidential elections next year, in which he could be his rival if he wins the Republican nomination.

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“It is electoral interferencehe snapped.

It is the first time that a former US president has been indicted at the federal level. The prosecution accuses him of having kept confidential documents after leaving the White Housewhich contained secret information on nuclear weapons.

Hours earlier, a federal judge read to him in Miami the 37 charges against him, including those of “illegal retention of information related to national security”, “obstruction of justice” and “false testimony”.

“We plead unequivocally not guilty“, said todd blancheTrump’s lawyer during the hearing.

The former president, who turns 77 on Wednesday, remained silent, with a serious face, verified an AFP journalist.

“One of the saddest days in the history of our country. We are a nation in decline”Trump said on his platform. TruthSocialand repeated that he considers himself the victim of a “Witch hunt”. In the same network he described as “lunatic” to the prosecutor jack smith.

On leaving the courthouse, in a Cuban restaurant converted into a meeting place for Republican militants, he was showered with crowds.

“I think it goes well”, he declared to his supporters who came forward one day to sing him the “Happy Birthday”.

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“Amazing”

A group of supporters of the former president waited for him this Tuesday outside the court with red caps with the motto “Make America Great Again” (Make America Great Again).

“I can’t believe I’m going through this againhe told AFP. Lazaro Ezenar. He is referring to criminal accounting fraud charges filed against Trump in April in upstate New York, stemming from a payment made before the 2016 presidential election to silence a pornographic film actress who claims to have been his mistress.

The case of Miami seems more compromising than that of NYalthough Trump has shown more than once that he survives problems politically, when he does not turn them into an opportunity.

In USA Presidents are required by law to send all their emails, letters, and other working documents to National Archives and another prohibits keeping state secrets in unauthorized and insecure places.

In January 2021, when he left the White House for his mansion in sea-a-lakein FloridaTrump took dozens of boxes full of files.

FBI record

According to the indictment, those boxes were stacked on the stage of a dance hall in the hotel complex before being transported to a storage room near a swimming pool. Some carried the mention “secret defense”.

In January 2022, after receiving several requests from the authorities, Trump decided to return boxes with some 200 classified documents.

Convinced that he had not handed over all the documents in his possession, several agents of the fbi They searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8 and took another thirty boxes with 11,000 documents inside.

After his indictment in New York, Trump bragged about receiving millions of dollars from his supporters. Many of them, convinced that the former president is the victim of a plot, continue to give him their support against all odds.

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A support that is necessary for Trump who is facing other judicial investigations. A Georgia prosecutor must announce the result of her investigation into the alleged pressures she exerted to try to change the result of the 2020 presidential elections by September.

The former president is also under the spotlight for his alleged role in the attack on the Capitol by a mob of followers of the magnate in January 2021.

The criminal trial for the open case in New York will probably be held at the beginning of 2024, in the middle of the campaign for the Republican primaries, in which Trump is the great favorite.

Source: Elcomercio

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