Trump told he could face charges over classified Mar-a-Lago documents

A second criminal indictment is on the cards for the former US president and current Republican frontrunner

Donald Trump
Around 100 classified documents were found at Trump’s Florida home last year
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Donald Trump is the target of a criminal investigation over the potential mishandling of classified files after his departure from the White House.

The former US president’s legal team have been sent a letter by federal prosecutors from the office of special counsel Jack Smith – “the clearest signal yet that the former president is likely to face charges in the investigation”, said to The New York Times.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.