#My money matters trial#

We know that there are seven counts, and according to CNN’s reporting, one of them is related to a conspiracy allegation. The major difference in the Trump case is that he actively tried for around a year to keep from handing documents over to the National Archives, which owns them after a president leaves office. And there is a special counsel investigating that too. Wasn’t classified material also found in President Joe Biden’s home? Smith is also overseeing other investigations related to Trump, including those regarding the January 6, 2021, insurrection and the 2020 election. Why isn’t Trump being charged in connection with January 6 or his effort to overturn the 2020 election? The new indictment involves completely different charges, brought by the federal government and related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. Trump was indicted back in March by the Manhattan district attorney on state charges related to hush-money payments to a former adult-film star in 2016. We are, as is so often the case with Trump, in uncharted territory.Īnother indictment? Wasn’t he already indicted?

#My money matters trial#

Maybe the trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr for treason in 1807 is an analog, but probably not. Neither has the front-runner for president from a major political party. No former president has been charged with a federal crime. Here are some of the answers we have so far: And we may not know much more until next Tuesday, when Trump has been ordered to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m. Jack Smith, the special counsel coordinating federal investigations related to the former president, has never spoken publicly about what federal prosecutors have been doing in the nearly one year since FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. He’s been indicted on seven counts, CNN reported.

Former President Donald Trump’s announcement on his social media platform that he has been indicted by the US Department of Justice raised more questions than it answered.