Florida Federal Grand Jury to Hear Testimony in Trump Classified Documents Case

By Ken Dilanian and Julia Ainsley - NBC News

A federal grand jury will meet this week in Florida to hear evidence in Special Inspector Jack Smith's investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

It's unclear how the court proceedings in Florida relate to the work of a separate grand jury in Washington, where prosecutors had been presenting evidence and witness testimony for months. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report this fact.

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It is unclear why prosecutors have constituted several grand juries and whether they are willing to bring an indictment in either jurisdiction. The Justice Department declined to comment on the investigation.

Documents the FBI seized at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Three members of Trump's legal team met Monday with Smith and other Justice Department officials, according to a person familiar with the matter. Neither Attorney General Merrick Garland nor Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco were present, NBC News, sister network of Noticias Telemundo, confirmed.

Writing on his social network, Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the Justice Department on Monday, saying in all caps: "How is it possible that the DOJ accuses me, that I did nothing wrong, when no other president was impeached."

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Trump's handling of classified documents was the subject of an FBI investigation last year, when the National Archives alerted the agency that among the government documents he had returned after being out of office for about a year were 184 that were marked as classified.

Trump was indicted this spring on state charges in New York in a case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and a second woman in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. It was the first time a former president had faced criminal charges.