Former President Trump has been charged with mishandling classified documents, he said on social media on Thursday

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made him the first president to be charged with a federal crime.

“The corrupt Biden administration has informed my lawyers that I have been charged, apparently because of the Boxes Hoax,” he said on

are

Truth Social

platforms

. “I never thought something like this could happen to a former president of the United States…I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!”

Multiple media confirmed the news Thursday evening. Trump said he has been summoned to appear Tuesday afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in Miami.

The unprecedented decision

comes after

a year-long investigation into whether Trump knowingly kept classified and top-secret government records when he left office in 2021, ignored a subpoena to return all classified documents in his possession, and whether he and his staff of the FBI to ensure that all documents were returned .

Trump was notified by the Justice Department on Wednesday, June 7, that he was the target of a criminal investigation into the matter.

Presidential documents and other government documents held by the White House

such as secret documents

must be returned to the National Archives and Records Administration on the day a president leaves office. Archive employees soon wondered why some materials were not included in the received materials

from Trump

in 2021, which led to months of negotiations with

the former chairman

and his staff and resulted in the return of more than 15 boxes of material last January, including nearly 200 documents marked classified.

The records notified the Department of Justice

about

the classified materials,

and officials

filed a subpoena to demand that

Trump

return any other classified material in his possession. Trump’s legal team produced

about

three dozen additional documents and a letter stating that a careful search had turned up nothing.

The FBI had information indicating more classified documents in the former president’s possession and obtained a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in early August.

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More than 100 additional documents were found labeled classified and top secret.

Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed by US Atty in November. General Merrick Garland to oversee the investigation of classified documents and one more

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investigating Trump’s actions to stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election.

Reports in recent weeks fueled speculation that an indictment was imminent.

According to news reports, Trump has relented

an audio recording of a meeting in the summer of 2021

that he held

a classified Pentagon document after leaving office. Trump’s lawyers have reportedly been unable to locate the classified document Trump discussed, which related to military plans to confront Iran.

Other reports indicated that

Trump and his aides

could have

efforts to retrieve security camera footage, and that the special counsel’s team has asked witnesses about possible damage from the flooding of a room where computer servers containing video surveillance logs were stored.

Garland has adhered to precedent and has not overruled Smith’s indictment decision.

Smith’s decision adds to the

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legal challenges facing Trump heading into the 2024 presidential election.

In March, Trump was indicted in New York City on 34 felony charges related to an alleged hush money payment to a porn actor

Stormy Daniels

in the final days of the 2016 campaign. It was the first time in history that a former US president was prosecuted.

In addition to

Blacksmith

‘s simultaneous research into

Attempts by Trump and his allies to win the 2020 presidential election, Fulton County, Ga.

away attentive Fanie Willis

is leading a criminal investigation related to Trump’s attempts to convince Georgia officials to change the results

over there

.

The legal challenges

Are

probably

Unpleasant

complicate Trump’s campaign. The judge presiding over the New York trial has ordered Trump

Unpleasant

be present at the procedure, which is scheduled for March 2024.

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the lying around of secret documents became an unexpected flashpoint

in

the

2024

presidential

campaign

with news that President Biden and former Vice President

Mike

pence

who joined the race on Monday

both had discovered that they still possessed secret documents from their time in the vice president’s office. Those cases were separate from the Trump case because both men voluntarily turned the documents over to the Justice Department upon discovery.

on June 1

the Ministry of Justice

informed Pence that it was finalizing its investigation into his handling of classified documents without filing charges. Garland appointed special counsel in January to review Biden’s handling of classified documents. The investigation is ongoing.