Former US President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on June 13 to face criminal charges that he illegally retained national security documents after leaving office and lied to officials seeking to retrieve them, according to Reuters.
It will be Mr Trump's second appearance in court since April, when he faced prosecution in a New York state criminal investigation into his role in paying a porn star hush money before the 2016 US presidential election. He has pleaded not guilty to any of the 34-count indictment.
Mr. Trump gets off the plane at the airport in Miami on June 12.
Mr Trump is the first sitting or outgoing US president to be criminally prosecuted, but that has not dampened his hopes of returning to the White House, having launched his 2024 presidential campaign last November.
Trump is leading many of his rivals in the race to win the Republican nomination for next year's election, and 81% of Republican voters believe the charges against the 45th US president are politically motivated, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Mr Trump has maintained his innocence and described the case as an attempt to sabotage his re-election campaign.
He was in Miami on June 12. After appearing in court at 3 p.m. on June 13 (East Coast time), Mr. Trump will fly back to his golf course in New Jersey and is scheduled to give a speech there that evening.
Police outside the court in Miami on the morning of June 13.
Trump’s appearance in court in New York City in April produced a circus-like scene, with both supporters and opponents shouting outside the courthouse. Officials in Miami are preparing for a crowd of up to 50,000.
Some people worry that Mr. Trump's statements could incite violence, similar to the attack by his supporters at the Capitol, the headquarters of the US Congress in Washington DC, on January 6, 2021.
As of the morning of June 13 (local time), such crowds had not yet appeared. A few Trump supporters wandered among tents set up by news agencies to cover the event. Security was tight and reporters were not allowed to bring mobile phones or other electronic devices into the building.
Crowd outside court in Miami on the morning of June 13, in which one person held a banner reading "Trump is indicted"
Special counsel Jack Smith, who led the investigation and prosecution, accused Mr. Trump of taking thousands of documents containing some of the most sensitive U.S. national security secrets when he left the White House in January 2021 and storing them haphazardly at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to an indictment unsealed last week.
Photos included in the 49-page indictment show boxes of documents left on a stage in a conference room, in a bathroom and scattered across a warehouse floor.
According to the 37-count indictment, Mr. Trump lied to officials who tried to retrieve the documents. The former president is accused of violating the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to illegally possess national defense information, and conspiring to obstruct justice, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Mr. Trump turns 77 on June 14.
The judge assigned to the case, Aileen Cannon, was appointed by Mr Trump in 2020 and last year ruled in his favour in the classified documents investigation, but that ruling was later overturned on appeal.
Experts say the trial could take a year or more, given the complexity of handling classified evidence. Trump’s lawyers could file a series of complaints challenging Smith’s decision to prosecute before the case goes to trial, potentially delaying the trial even further.
In the meantime, Mr. Trump is free to run for president and could take office even if he is convicted.
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