Donald Trump makes his first appearance in a Miami federal court Tuesday. He faces 37 counts accusing him of willfully retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and then trying to hide them from investigators. Here’s a look at the case.
Prosecutors allege Trump showed off the documents to people who did not have security clearances to review them and later tried to conceal documents from his own lawyers as they sought to comply with federal demands to find and return documents.Officials with the National Archives and Records Administration reached out to representatives for Trump in spring 2021 when they realized that important material from his time in office was missing.
A Trump representative told the National Archives in December 2021 that presidential records had been found at Mar-a-Lago. In January 2022, the National Archivesof documents from Trump’s Florida home, later telling Justice Department officials that they contained “a lot” of classified material. But that assertion turned out to be false. With a search warrant, federal officials returned to Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and seized more thantotaling 11,000 documents from a storage room and an office, including 100 classified documents.
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