The Justice Department detailed beautiful allegations towards former President Donald Trump in a prison indictment unsealed Friday, together with allegations he saved categorized paperwork in a toilet and bathe at his Florida membership, flaunted the paperwork to folks with out safety clearances and at instances tried to hide materials from his personal legal professionals in addition to investigators.

In the indictment, prosecutors spell out the kinds of categorized materials the Republican presidential candidate is accused of holding at his Florida seaside membership after he left workplace in 2021, together with the place he’s stated to have stored them and what he did with them.

A have a look at key moments as described within the indictment:

FLAUNTING DOCUMENTS

In July 2021 at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course, the previous president confirmed a author, a writer and two of his workers members — none of whom had a safety clearance — a “plan of attack” that had been ready by the Defense Department and a senior navy official. In the assembly, which prosecutors stated was recorded on audio, Trump instructed them the plan was “extremely 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. Trump acknowledged that he should not be showing the staffer the map and warned the staffer not to get too close.

DOCUMENTS STORED IN BATHROOM AND SHOWER

Trump, known for keeping mementos, kept hundreds of classified documents, along with newspapers, press clippings, notes and cards in cardboard boxes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, according to the indictment.

Although “tens of thousands of members and guests” visited the club between the time that Trump left office and that federal agents retrieved the documents in August 2022, Trump had documents stored in various places around the resort, including a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom and a storage room.

The paperwork included “information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries, United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack,” the indictment stated.

‘I DON’T WANT ANYBODY LOOKING THROUGH MY BOXES’

When a grand jury in May 2022 issued a subpoena for categorized information at Mar-a-Lago, Trump sought to defy the order, telling his attorneys, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes,” according to notes from a lawyer detailed in the indictment. The former president asked his attorneys if it would be better “if we just told them we don’t have anything here,” according to the lawyer’s recollection.

DIRECTING LAWYERS TO ‘PLUCK IT OUT’

One of Trump’s lawyers in June 2022 identified 38 documents with “classified” markings and put them in a folder, which he sealed with duct tape. He then went to see Trump, who requested the legal professional: “Did you find anything? Is it bad? … Is it good?”

The legal professional instructed federal investigators that he mentioned the folder with Trump and the previous president made a gesture that advised he wished the legal professional to establish “anything really bad” and “you know, pluck it out.” The legal professional clarified that Trump didn’t articulate such directions past making that “plucking motion.” The attorney said he did not “pluck” something from the folder however as a substitute instantly contacted the FBI and one other Trump legal professional.

KEEPING DOCUMENTS FROM HIS LAWYERS

Trump instructed his valet Walt Nauta “to move boxes of documents to conceal them” from the FBI, the grand jury and one in all his personal legal professionals, in accordance with the indictment.

The former president agreed at a May 23, 2022, assembly together with his legal professionals that one in all them would return at a later date to look by storage packing containers at Mar-a-Lago for categorized paperwork. Before the lawyer may return, prosecutors stated, Trump directed Nauta to take away 64 packing containers from the storage room and produce them to his residence. He had Nauta return 30 packing containers simply earlier than the lawyer confirmed as much as search for paperwork, the indictment stated.

Trump’s legal professionals turned over some information to authorities on June 3, 2022. Trump instructed his attorneys that he was “an open book,” although earlier within the day, Nauta had loaded “a number of of Trump’s packing containers … on plane that flew Trump and his household north for summer time,” the indictment stated.