NBC News has some of the details:
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with his mishandling of more than 100 classified documents, two sources confirmed to NBC News.
Trump, who first revealed the news earlier Thursday in a post on his Truth Social platform, faces seven counts, according to his lawyer and another source. The charges include false statements and conspiracy to obstruct, two sources said.
A federal grand jury in Florida has been meeting in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The Florida grand jury is separate from a panel that was convened in Washington, D.C.
The investigation began last year when the National Archives alerted the FBI that government documents Trump had returned after having been out of office for about a year included 184 that were marked classified. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
Insert ALL the dancing GIFs here!!!
The specific charges may not be known for some time. The courtroom appearance is reportedly scheduled for next Tuesday (CLEAR THE CALENDAR!) in Miami and it'll be a question of how quickly this gets sent to actual trial. I'm hearing stuff on MSNBC about a 'fast track' for major criminal cases, and I'm sure the DOJ wants this done before the 2024 primaries.
This doesn't affect the separate grand jury investigation into trump's role in the January 6th riots, and there's a chance additional charges from the DC grand jury investigating trump's theft/mishandling of classified documents are forthcoming.
MORE DANCING GIFS!
How many DOJ investigations into her server?
How many Congressional inquiries into Benghazi and other things she did as Secretary of State?
BUT HER EMAILS!
It's been seven years now: Every allegation aimed at Hillary turned out to be nothingburgers. Not even Durham's trump-ordered investigation into Hillary's 2016 campaign "spying" on trump turned up serious criminal charges or jury convictions.
Meanwhile, trump himself is so corrupt he's facing his SECOND CRIMINAL INDICTMENT THIS YEAR.
DAMMIT. Why are there NO GIFs of Jennifer Connelly dancing?! /cries
KEEP DANCING, AMERICA. LET'S PARTY.
1 comment:
The indictment has been unsealed and it has been characterized, rightly, as "brutal."
Hillary, though, is selling special edition "but her emails" hats, with the proceeds going to her OnwardTogether fund to support democracy.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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