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charged Donald Trump over his retention of national security documents
Trump confirmed the indictment on his Truth Social social media platform on Thursday afternoon, shortly after his lawyers received an email from prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith. It outlined the charges and summoned the former president to surrender himself to authorities in Miami next Tuesday.
His lawyers say they will appeal again to the same court, amid growing fears Assange could spend the rest of his life in prison for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents. “… We remain optimistic that we will prevail and that Julian will not be extradited to the United States where he faces charges that could result in him spending the rest of his life in a maximum security prison for publishing true information that revealed war crimes committed by the US government.
“It’s the worst by far, I mean, Jesus, it was bad,” said Marshall Burke, an environmental scientist at Stanford University who led the work. “It’s hard to believe to be honest, we had to quadruple check it to see if it was right. We have not seen events like this, or even close to this, on the east coast before. This is a historic event.”
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