District Court in Miami by John Anthony Castro, who is registered as a Republican candidate for president, cites the 14th Amendment as the basis to declare Trump “ineligible to hold public office for having given aid or comfort to the insurrectionists that attacked our United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”Ĭannon, a Trump appointee, has presided over the civil case since it was filed in January, court records show. District Judge Aileen Cannon - the Florida judge initially assigned to oversee Trump’s federal indictment - is overseeing another active court case involving Trump: a civil lawsuit brought by a Texas lawyer who seeks to bar the former president from running for the White House again. I believe in using the same standards and ask the DOJ to do the same. No one is above the law, and we demand due process and expect equality under the law.”īacon is one of 18 House Republicans representing a district Biden would have carried in 2020 had new congressional maps been in place at that time. "I’m the same person who criticized Hilary Clinton for knowingly and willfully storing thousands of classified emails on her unclassified computer, and thought the DOJ failed in holding her accountable. “The alleged obstruction to the requests of the National Archives and FBI, if true, is inexcusable.” “As a retired brigadier general who worked with classified materials my entire career, I am shocked at the alleged callousness with which the documents were handled,” Bacon said in a statement. Don Bacon of Nebraska tonight became one of the few congressional Republicans to criticize Trump following his indictment, saying he was "shocked" by the handling of government documents. Murkowski later defeated Trump's hand-picked challenger for her Senate seat in 2022. In 2021, Murkowski and Romney were among the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial. With her statement, Murkowski joined Mitt Romney of Utah as one of the few Senate Republicans to emphasize the seriousness of the charges facing the former president. "Anyone found guilty - whether an analyst, a former president, or another elected or appointed official - should face the same set of consequences,” she added. The unlawful retention and obstruction of justice related to classified documents are also criminal matters," the senator said in a statement. "Mishandling classified documents is a federal crime because it can expose national secrets, as well as the sources and methods they were obtained through. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a Republican who's butted heads with Trump in the past, said today that the charges against him “are quite serious and cannot be casually dismissed." Live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s indictment continues here. But the way Trump and Biden handled their classified documents is very different. Part of his argument that he is being treated unfairly is that Biden has not also been indicted.
Trump is not the only politician to have problems with classified documents.Trump and his allies have tried to make the indictment about President Joe Biden, but Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland have sought to insulate themselves from the case.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.Special counsel Jack Smith urged the public to read the indictment to "understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged.".Trump's personal aide Walt Nauta was also indicted on six counts, including conspiracy to obstruct and false statements.Trump faces 37 counts on seven charges, including false statements, conspiracy to obstruct and willful retention of national defense information. The indictment was made public just before 2 p.m.Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with his alleged mishandling of more than 100 classified documents.
The latest news on Donald Trump's indictment on federal charges
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