A Timeline of Trump’s Classified Documents Investigation
NBC NewsTrump is the first U.S. president to face federal charges. Here’s what happened.
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On June 13, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to his handling of classified documents. The case follows a multiyear attempt to retrieve these documents, some of them containing top secret information, from his private residence. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal charges.
Read on to understand the events leading up to the indictment, the complex legal matters at hand, and how the defense may play out.
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Trump is the first U.S. president to face federal charges. Here’s what happened.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Here is what to expect as the case proceeds.
Here are factors in Trump’s case to keep in mind as we hear comparisons to the ongoing Biden investigation.
Here are 6 things that Trump’s lawyers are almost certainly working on.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon will wield sweeping power over the case’s tempo and what evidence to allow in or exclude.
In one case that has already reached a verdict, the former president was found guilty of sexual assault and defamation.