For Trump, he is now suffering an unprecedented insult! On June 8, Trump was charged with seven counts in a confidential documents investigation by the US special counsel, and if all of these charges are confirmed, Trump will face a hundred years in prison.
But what really matters is that Trump is the first president to face prosecution on federal criminal charges!
In the special prosecutor's investigation revealed by the US media, Trump faces seven different charges, four of which face up to 20 years in prison for each of these counts — obstruction of justice as a co-conspirator, illegal possession of classified documents or records, concealment of documents or records to cover up corruption, and concealment of documents in federal investigations.
There are three other counts, each punishable by up to 5 to 10 years in prison — wilful retention of defence information (10 years). Systematic concealment of information (5 years in prison), false statements (5 years in prison).
This time the special prosecutor's "confidential information investigation case" originated after Trump left office, bringing a large number of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago where he lived after leaving office and where the president's office is located. Last year, the FBI searched Trump's residence in Florida, searched 11,000 documents and found about 100 of them labeled as classified files.
But while the news made headlines at the time, it was a tradition of successive U.S. presidents, including Obama, Biden (then-vice president) and Pence (former vice president), who took confidential documents. Even Biden was exposed to the news that classified documents taken from the federal government were thrown in the garage.
Therefore, Trump's legal team believes that the risk of him being criminally prosecuted for "secretly storing confidential documents" is extremely small.
As a result, I never expected that the "federal accusation, a hundred years of imprisonment" suddenly fell on Trump's head, so that next Tuesday, Trump will be summoned in Miami and tried in court.
The biggest difference between this federal charge and the "star hush door" that Trump faced against him by the New York District Prosecutor before him is that he was previously charged. Although Trump is also facing an extremely long sentence in the latter's charges, in fact, because the New York District Prosecutor played a small trick, all the misdemeanors against Trump were raised by one notch, and the charges were launched according to the lowest felony.
This method of "misdemeanor heavy prosecution" is obviously untenable in the final verdict and sentencing, and Trump does not have to go to jail even if he loses the case in the "star hush fee".
But this time in the "confidential documents investigation", the special prosecutor's accusation against Trump, although the maximum sentence is only 100 years, is shorter than Trump's maximum sentence in the "star hush money case".
But this time, Trump has no room for pretrial settlement and no room for sentencing reductions.
Only if you either win the case and get away without guilt.
Or, lose the case and go to jail, completely sweep away the prestige, and expect Biden or other presidents to pardon.
Therefore, this time Trump cannot go through the courtroom without even handcuffs, as he did in New York when he responded to the "star hush money case", this time he may not only have no preferential treatment, but also have to be questioned in court, the former president's honor.
After Trump received the notice to appear in court next Tuesday, Trump was very angry, fully denied the accusations of the special prosecutor, and angrily denounced the federal prosecution as Biden and Democrats to "weaponize the judicial system" and was another "political persecution" for him personally.
"The corrupt Biden administration has informed my lawyers that I have been indicted federally, which is yet another 'black box scam,' even though Biden has 1,850 'confidential file boxes' at the University of Delaware, more in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown, and at the University of Pennsylvania."
"The confidential documents were scattered on the floor of the garage where he parked the Corvette, only a garage door as thin as paper for 'protection,' and for that, the garage door remained open most of the time."
"At 3 p.m. Tuesday, I was asked to appear in federal court in Miami. I never imagined that such a thing would happen to a former US president who received far more votes than any sitting president in mainland history! ”
"In the polls for the 2024 presidential election, I'm currently ahead of all candidates, both Democrats and Republicans, and I'm simply innocent!"
Trump so angrily denounced Biden's "political persecution" of him on social media, and grievously conveyed to the outside world the innocent grievances of a widely loved and popular former US president.
In a video released Thursday, Trump emphasized: "It's very sad that we're a declining country, and it's good that people are following a very popular president." ”
"I haven't done anything wrong, I'll fight to the end."
Trump's angry denunciation of Biden's "political persecution" of him is not untargeted, because the special prosecutor who investigated him, Jack Smith, was appointed by the federal attorney general, Merrick Garland.
But speaking of which, the timing of the US federal government's prosecution against Trump is indeed very delicate, and Trump is actually very self-inflicted.
Because Biden recently committed another alleged crime - he accused President Biden of accepting $5 million in bribes from executives of a company during his tenure as vice president.
In the 2016 election, Trump condemned Hillary's "mailgate" incident, calling for the implementation of "laws to protect confidential information and lock her up" because "no one can put above the law."
Although Clinton was not detained, she also lost the 2016 election.
Now, time has changed, the 2024 election year is imminent, and Trump is also caught in the vortex of "classified document investigation".
However, Trump is different from Hillary, after he was indicted by the federal government, from ordinary Republican voters to congressmen, to Republican bigwigs such as McCarthy and DeSantis, they all came forward to support him, so that not only the label of "president" rushed to the hot search, but even Hillary, who had been "outraged" for a long time, was pushed to the second place in the hot search.
McCarthy, the speaker of the US House of Representatives and a Republican leader, fiercely criticized the federal prosecution of Trump, writing on Twitter: "Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. It is unconscionable for the president to sue the main candidate against him. And Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades.
I and every American who believes in the rule of law stand with President Trump against this grave injustice. House Republicans will hold accountable for this brazen weaponization of power. ”
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