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Former US President Donald Trump arrested

Former US President Donald Trump arrested

Former President Donald Trump and his former aide Walt Nauta have been arrested

said a court official.

Closed to cameras and live broadcasts, the former president’s upcoming hearing will begin at 3:00 p.m. EST.

It will be Trump’s second hearing, as he previously pleaded not guilty in New York state in April to a down payment scandal. He appeared in Miami on Tuesday on federal charges.

Trump has repeatedly asserted his innocence and accused Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration of targeting him. Tuesday on social media To a Trump hater said Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who is leading the charge.

Smith accuses Trump of He took thousands of sensitive documents with him when he left the White House in January 2021 and stored them haphazardly at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and at his golf club in New Jersey, At least that’s what the indictment released last week says.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters outside the courtroom that there were no security issues. The authorities had previously prepared for riots such as the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Even if there were no clashes with the police, there were demonstrations of sympathy for the former president in front of the courthouse.

National security secrets

The 37 charges include, among others, violations of the Espionage Act, unauthorized possession of national security information, and conspiracy to obstruct justice, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Photographs attached to the indictment show boxes of documents scattered across an auditorium stage, in the bathroom and on the floor of a storage room.

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The indictment alleged that Trump lied to officials who tried to recover classified documents.

The trial of a former US president in an unprecedented federal court in American history.

Cover image is illustrative. Cover image source: Clash

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