AP Explains: Trump charged over classified documents

(9 Jun 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Urbandale, Iowa – 1 June 2023
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1. Former US President Donald Trump walks into restaurant, shakes hands with voters

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Miami, Florida – 8 June 2023
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, AP US law enforcement news editor:
“I’m Michael Balsamo, I’m the US law enforcement editor for the Associated Press. Former President Donald Trump says he’s been indicted in connection with mishandling of classified records as part of a long-running Justice Department investigation. This investigation involves the Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, who’s been conducting this investigation with a grand jury here at the federal courthouse in Miami. A second grand jury had been meeting in the federal court in Washington, D.C., hearing from multiple witnesses.”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 4 April 2023
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3. Trump walks into courtroom for New York arraignment
4. STILL photo of Trump in courtroom for arraignment

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Miami, Florida – 8 June 2023
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, AP US law enforcement news editor:
“This is arguably the most legal trouble the former president has faced, despite the fact that he was indicted on separate charges in New York City and faces a multitude of other investigations, including a second special counsel investigation related to conduct tied to the 2020 presidential election.”

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ARCHIVE: Palm Beach, Florida – 4 April 2023
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6. Trump walks up to podium at Mar-a-Lago for post-New York indictment speech

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Miami, Florida – 8 June 2023
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, AP US law enforcement news editor:
“The former president says he’s expected to appear here in federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. A person familiar with the matter told the AP that the indictment against Trump includes seven counts and two people familiar with the matter told the AP that Trump’s legal team was informed shortly before he publicly announced his own indictment on his own social media platform Truth Social.”

TRUTH SOCIAL
Location unknown – 8 June 2023
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Former U.S. President:
“It’s election interference at the highest level. There’s never been anything like what’s happened. I’m an innocent man, I’m an innocent person.”
9. Donald Trump’s Truth Social posting reading: “The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured” by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Former U.S. President:
“We can’t let this continue to go on because it’s ripping our country to shreds. We have such big problems and this shouldnt be one of them. It’s a hoax. The whole thing is a hoax. Just like Russia, Russia, Russia. Just like the fake dossier was a hoax.”

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Miami, Florida – 8 June 2023
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, AP US law enforcement news editor:
“Trump is expected to appear at two events over the weekend. It’s unclear whether or not he’ll keep those events on his schedule. Given this announcement. We have not heard yet from the Justice Department about this indictment. We have only heard from the former president.”

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