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Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 37 Classified Documents Felonies

By Drooid · Oct 8, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC · How we work

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U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges in Jack Smith’s classified-documents probe.
A superseding indictment added one count of willful retention of national defense information and two obstruction counts.
FBI agents in the Washington Field Office said they did not believe probable cause existed for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
The White House accused the Biden administration of weaponizing the Department of Justice to target political opponents.

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U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges in Jack Smith’s classified-documents probe.
A superseding indictment added one count of willful retention of national defense information and two obstruction counts.
FBI agents in the Washington Field Office said they did not believe probable cause existed for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
The White House accused the Biden administration of weaponizing the Department of Justice to target political opponents.