Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 37 counts, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements. The indictment was unsealed by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday. Trump's aide, Waltine Nauta, was also indicted on six counts. Trump has announced that he will plead not guilty to the charges.

The indictment claims that as President of the United States, Trump had legal access to highly classified documents and information collected by the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. He kept a collection of these materials in cardboard boxes and among them were hundreds of documents classified as top secret, sensitive, and confidential. Unauthorized disclosure of this information could potentially harm American national security and the nation's

According to the indictment, Trump showed some of these documents to a group of individuals who did not have security clearance, describing one classified document as a 'plan of attack' prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official. Trump told them the plan was highly confidential and secret. In another instance, he showed a classified map related to a military operation to a representative of his political action committee who did not have security clearance either. Trump warned the representative not to show the map to anyone or get too close to it.

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 37 counts, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements. The indictment was unsealed by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday. Trump's aide, Waltine Nauta, was also indicted on six counts. Trump has announced that he will plead not guilty to the charges.
The indictment claims that as President of the United States, Trump had legal access to highly classified documents and information collected by the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. He kept a collection of these materials in cardboard boxes and among them were hundreds of documents classified as top secret, sensitive, and confidential. Unauthorized disclosure of this information could potentially harm American national security and the nation's
According to the indictment, Trump showed some of these documents to a group of individuals who did not have security clearance, describing one classified document as a 'plan of attack' prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official. Trump told them the plan was highly confidential and secret. In another instance, he showed a classified map related to a military operation to a representative of his political action committee who did not have security clearance either. Trump warned the representative not to show the map to anyone or get too close to it.

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