The U.S. Justice Department detailed stunning allegations against former U.S. president Donald Trump in a criminal indictment unsealed Friday, including allegations he stored classified documents in a bathroom and shower at his Florida club, flaunted the documents to people without security clearances and at times tried to conceal material from his own lawyers as well as investigators.
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In the indictment, prosecutors spell out the types of classified material Trump is accused of keeping at his Florida beach club after he left office in 2021, along with where he is said to have kept them and what he did with them.
In July 2021 at Trump's Bedminster, N.J., golf course, the former president showed a writer, a publisher and two of his staff members — none of whom had a security clearance — a "plan of attack" that had been prepared by the U.S. Department of Defense and a senior military official.
In the meeting, which prosecutors said was recorded on audio, Trump told them the plan was "highly confidential."
"As president, I could have declassified it," he said. "Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."
In August or September 2021, more than six months after he was no longer president, Trump showed a classified map of a military operation in a foreign country to someone working for his political action committee who also did not have a security clearance.