Trump is under criminal investigation.
Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump’s lawyers that they will investigate the classified documents case after the end of his presidency.
The American network “Fox News” reported, citing the information of two informed sources, that the federal prosecutors have informed the lawyers of the former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, that he will be investigated regarding the way he controlled and managed confidential documents after his presidency. .
According to the report, Trump’s handling of classified documents after his presidency ends in 2021 has been the focus of an investigation by special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed as special counsel in November 2022.
Trump, who is one of the most controversial presidents of the United States and still has cases in the American courts, has officially announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election and is seriously planning to become president for another four-year term.
In September of last year, during the search of the Trump mansion in Florida, FBI agents discovered a set of top secret documents, and some of these documents were so secret that even many top US national security officials had access to them. don’t have it
Smith’s appointment as special counsel for Trump’s classified documents case comes months after the FBI’s search operation for classified documents that were lost during the raid on Trump’s Maralago mansion in Florida on August 8, 2022.
The Justice Department’s notice to Trump’s lawyers came several days ago, the sources said, indicating that the special counsel may be close to deciding whether to charge him in his months-long investigation.
These sources also said that the fact that the prosecutors confidentially informed Trump’s lawyers that the former US president was the target of an investigation shows another issue, which is that Trump’s own actions in the field of handling and Dealing with classified documents is the focus of investigations by US authorities.
Trump’s legal team previously held confidential meetings with Smith and some members of his team to discuss the Justice Department’s grand jury investigation.
This investigation is ongoing while Trump does not believe that he has done anything wrong and described the August FBI attack on his mansion as a kind of coup.
At that time, he stated that the “American Federal Bureau of Investigation” (FBI) asked him not to make public the CCTV images of the search operation at the “Maralago” residence because this would jeopardize the security of the FBI agents who were in this It jeopardizes the company’s operations.
