Trump faces up to 37 charges for hiding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence

Former United States President Donald Trump faces up to 37 criminal charges ranging from willful withholding of national defense information to conspiracy to obstruct justice as part of the investigation against him into more than 300 classified documents that They met at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

Specifically, Trump faces 31 counts of willful withholding of national defense information; to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice; another for possession of records, another for concealing the documents, as well as three more charges for concealing a document during a federal investigation, for intrigue and for false statements.

The 49-page federal indictment, which reflects the same charges for the assistant to the former US president, Walt Nauta, has been made public this Friday in its entirety after Trump has been indicted by a grand jury of the district of the state of Miami, according to has picked up NBC News.

US authorities have found more than 100 documents with classified trademarks at Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The tycoon stored boxes in various places in his residence, such as his bedroom or one of his offices, although they were also found in the bathroom and shower.

The text reflects that the former president showed pages marked as classified on up to two occasions to several people, one of them in his private golf club to a writer, an editor and two members of his staff, who were not listed as authorized personnel. , while the other to a representative of his political action committee in the same place.

Likewise, the former president did not inform the Secret Services that he was storing boxes with classified documents. The tycoon would have gone so far as to order his assistant to move the papers from one place to another so that his legal team would not see them and even suggested destroying them.

The grand jury's decision to indict Trump follows months of investigation by the Justice Department, led by special counsel Jack Smith, who is also investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and the attempted of Trump to obstruct change in the US Presidency.

The leader of the majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and the leader of the minority in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, the two main Democrats in Congress, have intervened for the first time in the accusation of former president Donald Trump: "No one is for above the law, including Donald Trump."

"This accusation must now develop through the legal process, without any external political or ideological interference. We encourage supporters and critics of Mr. Trump to let this case proceed peacefully in the courts," they explained in a joint statement collected by the CNN.

The White House has so far refrained from commenting on the matter, insisting that "it falls within the purview of the Department of Justice and will play out regardless of the influence of President Joe Biden."

On the Republican side, the governor of Florida and main opponent for the presidency of Trump's party, Ron DeSantis, has posted on his Twitter account that "the militarization of federal law enforcement represents a deadly threat to a free society. During years we have witnessed uneven application of the law based on political affiliation.

"Why so stubborn in going after Trump and so passive with Hillary or Hunter? The DeSantis administration will be accountable to the Department of Justice, eliminate political bias and end gun use once and for all," he added.

The president of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has opined in the same vein as DeSantis and in a tweet has denounced that "many officials, from Secretary Hillary Clinton to then-Senator Joe Biden, handled classified information after his time in the charge and were never indicted. Biden's main political opponent is now indicted, a double standard that must be investigated."