Former President Donald Trump was indicted for a second time Thursday over the same conduct both President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in at the upper echelons of government.
Trump, whose Florida home was raided by some 30 plainclothes agents last August, faces charges from a seven-count indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Federal officials ultimately confiscated 15 boxes of material in an investigation that was later given special counsel protection under the Department of Justice.
The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination is expected to surrender to authorities on Tuesday, marking the first time a former president is arraigned over federal charges. Trump was separately indicted by the far-left Manhattan district attorney over 2016 hush-money payments to a porn actress.
Trump blasted Thursday’s partisan indictment in a video published to Truth Social, saying it is just the latest episode in a years-long effort of government-sponsored election interference.
“Just like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and all of the others,” Trump said, “this has been going on for seven years and they can’t stop, because it’s election interference at the highest level.”
Trump pointed out the Russia-collusion hoax was a grand conspiracy conceived by the Clinton campaign in 2016 that was personally approved by Hillary Clinton herself. Now in the latest hoax over documents, Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose 2016 Supreme Court nomination was thwarted by Trump’s triumphant victory, personally signed off on the anti-Trump persecution.
While Trump’s political
