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Former US President Donald Trump volition contiguous marque his archetypal nationalist quality since being indicted connected national charges for his handling of classified documents.
He volition talk astatine a Republican Party normal successful Georgia connected Saturday day section time, past aboriginal successful North Carolina.
A 37-count indictment made nationalist connected Friday accuses him of keeping delicate documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago property.
Mr Trump denies immoderate wrongdoing.
He has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including immoderate astir US atomic secrets and subject plans.
The indictment accused him of keeping the files astatine Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, successful a ballroom and a shower.
It alleges that helium lied to investigators and tried to obstruct the probe into his handling of the documents.
They are the first-ever national charges against a erstwhile US president.
Mr Trump, who is moving for the White House again successful 2024, has reacted angrily to the indictment, calling it a politically-motivated "scam".
He has besides claimed helium "had thing to hide" and supplied the documents "openly".
In a bid of posts, arsenic good arsenic a video connected his societal media level Truth Social, Mr Trump repeatedly said helium was guiltless and described the indictment arsenic "political warfare" against him earlier the 2024 election.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation, said: "We person 1 acceptable of laws successful this country, and they use to everyone."
As momentum starts to physique towards the 2024 election, Mr Trump volition archetypal talk astatine a Republican Party normal successful Columbus, Georgia astatine astir 14:30 section clip (18:30 GMT), earlier moving onto different Republican Party lawsuit successful Greensboro, North Carolina, wherever helium is scheduled to talk astatine 18:00 EDT (22:00 GMT).
Mr Trump is presently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
His erstwhile vice president Mike Pence - who this week was highly captious of his erstwhile brag erstwhile announcing his ain tally for the presidency - spoke earlier astatine the North Carolina event, though the brace are not expected to transverse paths.
Georgia is apt to beryllium a cardinal battleground successful the contention for the White House, and is wherever Mr Trump narrowly mislaid to existent President Joe Biden successful 2020 - it could besides beryllium the country of further ineligible jeopardy for the erstwhile president.
Officials successful the authorities are presently looking into whether Mr Trump broke the instrumentality erstwhile helium asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the nonstop fig of votes helium needed to flip the ballot successful his favour.
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