Watch as hundreds of Trump supporters gather in Florida after indictment of ex-president
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch as Donald Trump’s supporters gather after he was indicted on 37 counts.
The indictment, filed on 8 June in US District Court in Florida, includes more than two dozen counts of illegally withholding classified documents under the Espionage Act.
In the past weeks, federal law enforcement was able to retrive mounds of boxes with sensitive government documents from his primary residence in the notorious Mar-a-Lago resort.
Photographs in an unsealed indictment released on 9 June showed stacks of them on a ballroom stage and gilded bathroom with a chandelier.
Despite the charges, Donald Trump has pledged to continue his 2024 presidential campaign even if he is convicted of a felony.
The former president took the stage at state Republican conventions in Georgia and North Carolina where he called his recent indictment “a travesty of justice” and repeated unsupported conspiratorial claims that Joe Biden had stashed secret documents in Washington DC.
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