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Hugo Lowell in Miami

Donald Trump charged with illegal retention of classified documents

Donald Trump
The latest charges could prove to be the most significant legal peril yet for the former president. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP

Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump over his retention of national security documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, a historic development that poses the most significant legal peril yet for the former president.

The exact nature of the indictment, filed in federal district court in Miami, is unclear because it remains under seal and the justice department had no immediate comment.

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