Hold onto your hats, folks, because the just unsealed indictment of Donald Trump over classified documents is making waves. The former president is facing a whopping 37-count indictment that alleges he “put at risk the national security of the United States”. If found guilty, he could be looking at over 20 years in prison and millions in fines. Yikes! But that’s not all – the feds are claiming that Trump blatantly lied about his use of top-secret material in an effort to “obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations.” Want to read the full unsealed Trump indictment? Check it out here.
One of the most shocking aspects of the indictment is the number of documents kept at Mar-a-Lago that were at the highest level of secret classification. These documents contained details of various military activities and top-level plans, including a potential “plans for a possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.” This is serious stuff, folks.
But wait, there’s more. The indictment against Trump and his valet Waltine Nauta comes as the main defendant lost members of his defense team Friday. The DOJ have scheduled a press conference on the case set for Noon PT. Neither Trump nor the White House have commented on the unsealed indictment yet.
As if that wasn’t enough, the now unsealed document points out two instances where Trump showed documents to those who did not have security clearances. A 2021 meeting at the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s Bedminster, NJ residence details Trump showing Defense Department paperwork to a visitor in full knowledge he shouldn’t be doing so or having the documents in his possession.
As expected, cable news exploded with news of the unsealing this morning. CNN’s Dana Bash read out the opening paragraphs out loud live at 10:45 a.m. PT. The network quickly aired photographs that prosecutors included in the indictment, showing boxes stored haphazardly around Mar-a-Lago, in one instance a shot of an overturned box with documents and press clippings spilled onto the floor. On CNBC and the BBC, correspondents reported on the contents of the indictment in real time. MAGA friendly Fox News had a lower third that read “DOJ Unseals Trump Classified Documents” as former George W. Bush press secretary and consistent Trump apologist Ari Fleischer threw some rare shade and acknowledged “there is a sloppiness here” when it comes to the ex-reality TV host’s maintenance of top secret materials.
With more from Special Counsel Jack Smith expected soon, all the cable newsers, including the Rupert Murdoch-owned FNC, became all Trump, all the time with the truly historic turn of criminal events against the one-term Commander-in-chief. In the typical topsy-turvy fashion of all things out of Trumpland, it was Trump himself on June 8 who first unveiled on Truth Social, his social media platform, that the Justice Department informed his attorneys that he had been indicated. Already facing a plethora of litigation, including a Manhattan case involving payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels, the former and perhaps future POTUS has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami on June 13 in what will surely be a media and political circus. Hold onto your hats, folks, because this is just the beginning.
