What's in the unsealed Trump indictment and what next in the secret documents case?

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Former US president Donald Trump faces 37 separate counts, including 31 counts of 'willful retention of national defence information' relating to specific documents.

at his Florida estate has brought renewed attention to one of the most notable cases in Justice Department history.

Officials with the National Archives and Records Administration reached out to representatives for Trump in the spring of 2021 when they realised that important material from his time in office was missing from their collection. 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 than 33 boxes and containers totalling 11,000 documents from a storage room and an office, including 100 classified documents.

This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records that had been stored in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after they were moved to a storage room on Jun 24, 2021. Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed Friday, Jun 9, 2023.

Another document marked TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN//FISA concerned"military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States, with handwritten annotation in black marker", according to the indictment. In a meeting later that year at Bedminster, Trump allegedly showed a representative of his political action committee a classified map of another country in discussing an ongoing military operation there.

According to the Code of Federal Regulations, a special counsel must have “a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking,” as well as “an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies".Yes, but the circumstances of their cases are vastly different from the situation involving Trump.

 

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