Judge prohibits publications
Trump is no longer allowed to divulge anything in the document affair
06/20/2023 11:59 am
In the document affair, Donald Trump is accused of a total of 37 criminal offenses. The ex-president pleads not guilty and regularly shares details of the proceedings on his social platform. This should now come to an end.
For months, former US President Donald Trump has been on trial in various cases. He is happy to share details of the negotiations with his followers on his Truth Social platform. A Florida judge has told prosecutors in the Trump document affair trial that the former president can no longer make publicly available evidence against him. Trump may therefore only view evidence against him under the direct supervision of his lawyers, but not keep it or talk about it publicly.
With this order, the court wants to prevent the ex-president from publishing or twisting evidence to his advantage. Trump had previously criticized Justice Department prosecutors and Special Attorney Jack Smith on Truth Social.
In August, the Federal Police FBI searched Trump’s private home Mar-a-Lago in Florida and confiscated numerous classified documents from his tenure, some with the highest classification level. Mar-a-Lago is also a club with rooms for paying guests and public events. By storing confidential government documents in private rooms after his term in office, Trump could have made himself liable to prosecution.
He is accused of conspiring to obstruct investigations and illegally storing highly sensitive information. According to the indictment, these included details of the nuclear capabilities of the United States and other countries, military weaknesses in the defenses of the United States and its partners, and information about potential military action. The indictment charges Trump with seven categories of misdemeanor and a total of 37 felonies. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts.
The details in the 49-page paper are explosive. For example, it states that Trump kept boxes of classified information in his bedroom, a bathroom, a shower, a ballroom and a storage room. Some boxes would have stood temporarily in a room where public events were taking place. A storage room was easily accessible via a public pool area.
In the indictment, the investigators detail how Trump spoke to other people about classified information or showed it to unauthorized third parties, based on audio recordings, among other things. Trump vehemently rejects all allegations and sees the charges as a politically motivated attempt by the Democrats to keep him from a second term in the White House. He speaks of “political contract killing” and “waging war” with legal means.