Donald Trump faces 37 charges, including "withholding information on national security" and "obstruction of justice" He is also accused of false testimony and having colluded with his assistant Walt Nauta to conceal documents requested by the federal police. The former US president also kept nuclear secrets after leaving the Oval Office, according to the indictment.

Donald Trump had taken the lead by announcing himself Thursday night to have been indicted by a federal justice, a historic first for a former president. He wrote on his Truth Social network in reference to the boxes of documents taken with him as he left Washington.