Former President Donald Trump said he will be indicted for not turning over highly classified documents when he left office on January 20, 2021, said Jack Smith, Special Council to the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump.

Trump said last night he is expected to report at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the U.S. Justice Department in Miami, Florida. Trump also assigned new lawyers to defend him in court.

“For his presidency, Trump, the nation’s 45th president, gathered newspapers, press clippings, letters, notes, cards, photographs, official documents, and other materials in cardboard boxes that he kept in the White House,†the complaint said, omitting the fact that he carried away dozens of boxes of top-secret security documents.

He is not the only former head of state in trouble.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly quit his seat in Parliament because of the so-called “Partygate,” a series of government parties held during the pandemic in overt defiance of COVID protocols.

And not every government official is sympathetic to Trump.

Senator Mitt Romey, a Utah Republican, said Trump ‘got himself into this mess.’ Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, has made no mention of Trump’s indictment.

And Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president and now wants to replace him, said he didn’t think the indictment should have been brought at this time.

Among the materials Trump carried away in his boxes were hundreds of classified documents he stored in a bathroom and in bedrooms at Mar-a-Logo, said Jack Smith.

The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack. 

The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources, and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.

At noon on January 20, 2021, Trump ceased to be president. As he departed the White House, Trump caused scores of boxes, many of which contained classified documents, to be transported to The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he maintained his residence. Trump was not authorized to possess or retain those classified documents. 

The Mar-a-Lago Club was an active social club, which, between January 2021 and August 2022, hosted events for tens of thousands of members and guests. After Trump’s presidency, The Mar-a-Lago Club was not an authorized location for the storage, possession, review, display, or discussion of classified documents.

Nevertheless, Trump stored his boxes containing classified documents in various locations at The Mar-a-Lago Club—including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room. 

On two occasions in 2021, Trump showed classified documents to others, as follows: In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey (“The Bedminster Club”), during an audio-recorded meeting with a writer, a publisher, and two members of his staff, none of whom possessed a security clearance. Trump showed and described a “plan of attack” that Trump said was prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official.

Trump told the individuals that the plan was “highly confidential” and “secret.” Trump also said, “As president, I could have declassified it,†and, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.†

In August or September 2021, at The Bedminster Club, Trump showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map related to a military operation and told the representative that he should not be showing it to the representative and that the representative should not get too close. 

Trump, who is running for president in 2024, was indicted by Manhattan District Alvin Bragg Jr., for paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels with whom he shared a sexual liaison. Trump was indicted on April 4.