Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to authorities in Miami on Tuesday, according to a person close to him and his own post on Truth Social. Written by Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, William K. Rashbaum and Benjamin ProtessThe Justice Department took the legally and politically momentous step of lodging federal criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, multiple people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The charges follow a lengthy investigation of his handling of classified documents that he took with him upon leaving office and into whether he obstructed the government’s efforts to reclaim them. The indictment, filed in US District Court in Miami, is the first time in American history a former president has faced federal charges. The boxes turned out to contain highly sensitive material with classified markings, prompting a Justice Department investigation.

Source: New York Times June 09, 2023 02:51 UTC