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The Trump Indictment, Explained

Prosecutors say Donald Trump retained reams of national security documents at Mar-a-Lago and even hid them from his own lawyers.
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Former President Donald Trump in 2019. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Donald Trump became the first former president to face federal indictment Thursday after a grand jury handed down 37 counts against him related to the mishandling of classified documents.

Prosecutors allege Trump violated seven federal statutes: willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, and making false statements and representations.

Price St. Clair is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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