Former President Donald Trump has been charged with making false statements, concealing documents, and conspiring to obstruct justice, a newly unsealed indictment shows. Trump aide Waltine Nauta has also been charged.
Trump announced he’d been indicted on June 8. He says he is innocent.
Trump violated federal law by causing “scores of boxes, many of which contained classified documents, to be transported” to his Mar-a-Lago resort after Joe Biden became president on Jan. 20, 2021, according to the indictment, which was signed by special counsel Jack Smith.
The resort was not an authorized location to hold the documents but Trump stored them there anyways in various places, including in a bathroom and his bedroom, the indictment states. Some were located in a ballroom at the resort, which is located in Palm Beach, Florida….