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Trump indicted: What to know about the documents case and what's next
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6/9/2023
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We can now go across France 24.
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Ketivan Gorgiastani standing by in Washington.
00:04
Ketivan, a good morning to you.
00:06
What more do we know about this indictment?
00:08
Well, so far we know nothing official because that indictment has not been unveiled yet.
00:16
What we know about these charges comes from what Donald Trump's attorneys have been saying
00:23
in US media, and even they don't know exactly what the charges are.
00:28
But one of his attorneys said that in the summons that Donald Trump received, which
00:33
is asking him to present himself at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, that according
00:39
to that language, they can assume that there are about seven charges that will be brought
00:45
against Donald Trump.
00:47
One emanating from the Espionage Act, that is the willful retention of those classified
00:54
documents.
00:55
The lawyer also talking about several obstruction based charges, as well as several false statement
01:01
charges and probably a very likely also a conspiracy charge.
01:07
So these are pretty significant charges.
01:10
As I said, we still don't know exactly whether these charges are right or accurate, how many
01:17
of them will be in each sort of category.
01:21
That's going to be interesting to see.
01:22
The other thing interesting to see when that indictment is unveiled, which will very likely
01:27
happen on Tuesday in Miami, is to see whether the prosecution will be mentioning at all
01:34
the motive behind that mishandling of classified documents, whether they will be questioning
01:43
or pointing to a definite motive for Donald Trump.
01:47
Why did he keep those documents?
01:49
Did he simply take them away from the White House to keep them as mementos, as sometimes
01:53
the former president has said?
01:56
Or was he using them for other means?
02:00
Was he sharing them with people?
02:02
Was he sharing them with other countries?
02:04
That will be very important to see.
02:07
The lawyer for Donald Trump also confirming that Donald Trump will indeed be showing up
02:13
in person for that summons in Miami, the way he did back in Manhattan for that hush money
02:22
payment case at the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan.
02:27
And Ketivan, how have Republicans, where you are, been reacting to this news?
02:32
Well, of course, this is all happening within the campaign for the Republican nomination
02:39
for 2024.
02:41
And we were expecting these candidates to react, but they are in a difficult position
02:47
because an overwhelming majority of Republican voters, even before this indictment was announced,
02:55
were basically saying that Donald Trump should not be indicted in this case, in the classified
03:01
documents case.
03:02
So the Republican candidates are treading lightly.
03:05
They want to use this as an opportunity to attack someone, Donald Trump, who is 30 points
03:12
ahead of his first challenger, but at the same time not alienate a big part of the Republican
03:19
base.
03:20
And that's what Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump's main challenger, has done.
03:24
He went after the weaponization of the federal law enforcement, saying that it represented
03:31
a mortal threat to a free society.
03:34
He didn't really support Donald Trump, but he went mostly after the Department of Justice.
03:40
Asa Hutchinson, he's one of the candidates.
03:42
He's the only one so far who has called for Donald Trump to drop out of the race, saying
03:47
that, what, legally he's still allowed to run.
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This is at best a distraction and at worst a real problem for American democracy.
03:56
And finally, Chris Christie, who's been one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump,
04:02
saying no one is above the law, no matter how much they wished they were.
04:06
He did, however, say that he will have more to say once he actually sees the wording of
04:11
the indictment.
04:12
So even he is not going full force on the attack against Donald Trump.
04:17
Keir Starmer, thank you very much.
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