Former President Donald Trump has been charged with 37 counts in an unsealed federal indictment that alleges he willfully retained national secrets about U.S. defense and weapons capabilities among the hundreds of classified documents he stored at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

The historic indictment was unsealed Friday by a Florida judge a day after Trump learned he’d been charged by the feds. It marked the first time in the nation’s history a former president has faced federal charges and, incredibly, Trump’s second criminal indictment in as many months.

“As president, [Trump] had lawful access to the most sensitive classified documents and national defense information gathered and owned by the United States government, including information from the agencies that comprise the United States Intelligence Community and the United States Department of Defense,” reads the complaint.

“At 12:00 p.m. on January 20, 2021, [Trump] ceased to be president. As he departed the White House, TRUMP caused scores of boxes, many of which contained classified documents, to be transported to The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he maintained his residence.

“[Trump] was not authorized to possess or retain those classified documents.”

The 49-page indictment says Trump kept much of the stolen documents in his bathroom and shower and some of them in the resort ballroom. It says documents releasable only to the “Five Eyes” — an intelligence alliance between the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — were discovered spilled all over the floor of a storage room.

Trump also waved documents about top secret U.S. military plans in front of people at least two separate times at his New Jersey golf resort, according to the indictment.

“We have one set of laws in this country that apply to everyone ,” said special counsel Jack Smith, a respected former Brooklyn prosecutor, in a cursory statement. “We very much look forward to presenting our case to a jury.”

He praised federal investigators and vowed to give Trump a “speedy trial.”

Smith said the laws Trump violated are designed to protect Americans by keeping national security documents out of the hands of adversaries.

Trump was charged with 31 counts related to retention of classified documents, along with other counts of obstruction of justice and violation of the Espionage Act that outlaws showing sensitive documents to unauthorized people.

Walt Nauta, a loyal Trump aide, was hit with at least six charges for allegedly helping Trump move boxes of classified documents and lying about it.

The former president has been ordered to appear in Miami federal court on Tuesday. He faces several years in prison if convicted.

Trump angrily denies all the charges and has derided Smith’s probe as a partisan “witch hunt” aimed at derailing his 2024 White House comeback campaign.

[Smith] is a Trump Hater—a deranged “psycho” that shouldn’t be involved in any case having to do with “Justice,” Trump wrote Friday on his social media site.

The indictment is chock full of previously unknown details about Trump’s alleged effort to keep and misuse hundreds of classified documents, including some that detailed nuclear capabilities of foreign nations.

It says the boxes were stored in locations like a ballroom, storeroom, office and bedroom where tens of thousands of guests visited for more than a year after he took the documents to Mar-a-Lago in January 2021.

The indictment says Nauta obeyed Trump’s orders to move the boxes of documents around Mar-a-Lago and lied to investigators.

Trump also allegedly urged his lawyer, identified as Attorney 1, to avoid complying with a federal subpoena for return of the documents.

He is quoted suggesting to Attorney 1 that they should falsely claim all the documents had been returned and demanded that the lawyer remove highly sensitive ones and not give them back to the feds.

“If there’s anything really bad in there …. pluck it out,” the indictment quotes Trump telling his lawyer.

The indictment also outlined two alleged instances in which Trump improperly showed the documents to others.

The first was a summer 2021 meeting at his Bedminster golf resort where he waved a supposed plan for a potential U.S. invasion of Iran, according to a transcript of a damning audiotape reported on Friday.

“As president, I could have declassified. But now I can’t,” Trump says on the tape, according to the transcript obtained by CNN.

According to the tape transcript, the former president boasted the document was highly classified.

“It’s, like, confidential. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump adds, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”

In a later meeting with a representative from his political action committee, Trump displayed “a classified map related to a military operation,” acknowledging he “should not be showing it to the representative and that the representative should not get too close,” prosecutors said.

Among the agencies Trump illegally stored documents from were the CIA, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Department of Energy, and the Department of State and Bureau of Intelligence and Research, according to the charges.

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