Against the ex-US president, Donald Trump, was charged with storing secret documents. He faces a prison term

The US Federal Prosecutor's Office charged the illegal storage of classified documents against former President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports . Among them are papers describing the American programs of conventional and nuclear weapons, potentially weak places in the defense of the country and plans to counteract foreign invasion.

The charge is a 49-page document, which was filed on June 8 to the Federal Court of Miami. According to him, boxes with secret materials were stored in Trump’s estate in Mar-A-Liag (Florida) everywhere: “In the hall, in the toilet and soul, in the bedroom and in the pantry.”

Previously, cases against the former president were never considered in the federal court. It can be sentenced to prison. The Bloomberg source says Trump is accused of conscious storage of information regarding the country's defense, criminal concealment of documents, conspiracy to prevent justice, as well as in giving false testimonies.

The former president published on his social network Truth Social the following statement:

“I never thought that this could happen with the former president of the United States, who received more votes in the election than any other president in the history of our country, who holds a leading position among all candidates in the 2024 presidential elections according to public asked both among the democrats and among the Republicans. I'm innocent! "

On May 9, the jury found Donald Trump guilty of the claim of the writer and publicist Jin Carroll about sexual harassment to her in the 1990s. He was obliged to pay Carroll compensation in the amount of $ 5 million. The jury also found him guilty of slander.