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Donald Trump Has Been Indicted. Again.

What does this mean for the 2024 election?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJun 9, 2023
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Well, it’s happening.

Donald Trump has been indicted for a second time, this time because of alleged mishandling of the classified documents found inside his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. Documents he lied about posessing, and refused to give back.

Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Herb and Evan Perez with CNN report:

“Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on seven counts in the special counsel’s classified documents probe, a stunning development that marks the first time a former president has faced federal charges.

Trump is facing a charge under the Espionage Act, his attorney Jim Trusty said on CNN Thursday, as well as charges of obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements.

The special counsel has been investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents that were brought to his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort after he left the White House in 2021, as well as possible obstruction of the investigation and government efforts to retrieve the material…”

As more and more candidates have entered the 2024 GOP primary, I wondered on multiple occasions why so many of them were deciding to run if the…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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