The former president is set to be arraigned in Miami on Tuesday over the classified documents case.
There are two factors that could play in the favor of former President Donald Trump amid his indictment in the classified documents case, according to former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut on Monday.
Trump is set to be arraigned on Tuesday in Miami on 37 counts ranging from willful retention of classified documents to obstruction charges in connection to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. Federal prosecutors are accusing the former president of mishandling sensitive presidential records and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. Trump, however, has maintained his innocence, accusing prosecutors of investigating him for political reasons.
Legal experts have long pointed to the classified documents investigation, which came to the public view after an FBI raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last August, as perhaps the most troubling legal issue for the former president, who faces a myriad of investigations as he again runs for president.
