The judge in the federal case against former US President Donald Trump over the handling of classified documents has postponed the case indefinitely, according to Reuters and AFP.
The indictment for this case states that Trump endangered US national security by retaining classified defense information, obstructing the investigation, hiding documents, giving false testimony and sharing sensitive information with people without security clearance.
Reuters refers to court documents. The judge in the case is Aileen Cannon, who at the time was appointed by Trump.
It was in August 2022 that FBI agents entered Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago where they found around 13,000 documents stored in boxes that were stacked in the residence’s shower room, bathroom, bedroom, in an office and in a storage room. Among them were top secret documents dealing with military matters and the US nuclear weapons programme.
31 of the indictments concern violations of the US Espionage Act, but Trump denies criminal guilt and has claimed that he, as president, had the authority to declassify the documents and therefore could have them.
The case is being led by special investigator Jack Smith, who initially suggested starting in July.
The postponement comes at the same time that Trump is involved in a court case with the porn actress Stormy Daniels in New York. This case had its first court date at the end of April.
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Just weeks from the 2016 election, Daniels was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter she allegedly had with Trump in 2006. Trump was married at the time and denies having sex with Daniels.
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