Al Jazeera reported that former United States President Donald Trump has alleged on his Truth Social platform that he faces indictment on federal charges that he mishandled classified documents upon exiting the White House.
“I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday,” Trump wrote in the post. “I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States.”
The sealed indictment would represent yet another “first” for the scandal-ridden Republican: Never before has a US president, current or former, faced federal charges.
In April, Trump became the first US president to be criminally indicted, after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced 34 state level felony charges of falsifying business records in a case pertaining to a hush-money payment to an adult film actress.
“I’m an innocent man,” Trump maintained in a video posted shortly after the announcement on Thursday. “I did nothing wrong.”