ABC
Donald Trump was hit with a sweeping 37-count indictment from the special counsel’s office Thursday, alleging that he willfully retained documents containing the nation’s most sensitive secrets, including nuclear programs, after he left office, showed some of them on at least two occasions and then tried to obstruct the investigation into their whereabouts.
Federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment Friday against the former president and his aide Walt Nauta in connection with his handling of government documents.
Trump is slated to be arraigned on Tuesday in a Florida federal court.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and criticized the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney general’s office of conducting a political “witch hunt.”
The 49-page indictment includes several transcripts, images and other evidence that federal prosecutors claim Trump knowingly kept top secret documents and endangered national security.
Some of the classified documents that Trump allegedly held onto included nuclear secrets and defense capabilities of the U.S. and its allies, according to the indictment.
The indictment alleged, “Trump stored his boxes containing classified documents…in a ballroom, a bathroom…
