The former US president faces years in prison if ultimately convicted, but says the case is part of a Joe Biden-orchestrated plot to stop him re-entering the White House.
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Donald Trump has arrived in Miami for an historic federal court appearance on charges he stole classified information and lied to block efforts to get it back. He touched down in his private plane on Monday afternoon, one day before his initial appearance in front of a judge.over documents found at his Florida home, as well as claims he obstructed justice and made false statements.showed boxes of documents stacked inside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, including in a bathroom.
Details on nuclear weapons programmes, potential vulnerabilities of the US and its allies, and plans for retaliatory military attacks were in some of the documents, according to prosecutors. Roughly 13,000 documents were seized in raids on the property nearly a year ago. One hundred of them were marked as classified.
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