(Reuters) – Court documents made public on Friday detailed 37 criminal counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump, including charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after he left the White House in 2021. Following are some reactions to the news: * Jack Smith, special counsel in the case: “Our…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the indictment of rival Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday, saying there had been what he called double standards in issuing charges. U.S. prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Trump on Friday, accusing the former president of risking some of the country’s most…
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge initially assigned to oversee Donald Trump’s classified documents case, made headlines last year when she decided in favor of the former U.S. president at a pivotal stage of the case and was later reversed on appeal. A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Cannon had relatively…
By Andrew MacAskill and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly quit as a member of parliament on Friday in a furious protest against lawmakers investigating his behaviour, reopening deep divisions in the ruling Conservative Party ahead of a general election expected next year. Johnson had been under investigation by a…
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s main rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination condemned the Justice Department for its move to charge him over his handling of classified documents, underscoring their fear of upsetting his core supporters. The indictment of a former president on federal charges is unprecedented in U.S. history, a case made…
By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he had not spoken to Attorney General Merrick Garland and had no plans to do so, as the Justice Department’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was unsealed. “I have not spoken to him at all and I’m…
(Reuters) – Here is a timeline of events that led to charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump and others over government records, some marked as highly sensitive, stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left the White House in January 2021: Feb. 9, 2022: The National Archives and Records Administration asks the…
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – Here are five takeaways from Friday’s indictment accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump of illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and then conspiring to obstruct a federal probe of the matter. TRUMP KEPT DOCUMENTS ON MILITARY, NUCLEAR PROGRAMS Documents kept at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida…
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The indictment of former President Donald Trump on multiple charges related to his handling of classified documents on Thursday has thrust the Justice Department back into the center of the Republican presidential primary campaign. Several candidates have called for major reforms at the department, and most have accused the…
(Reuters) -Here is a list of additional legal troubles facing Donald Trump, who has been indicted by a federal grand jury for retaining classified government documents and obstruction of justice, according to a lawyer for the former U.S. president and another source familiar with the matter. He denies any wrongdoing. 2020 ELECTION AND THE U.S….
