Former US President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social social networking site that judicial authorities have informed his lawyers that he is being prosecuted for allegedly illegally handling classified documents at the end of his term.

“The corrupt Biden administration informed my lawyers that I was being prosecuted, apparently for the box fraud,” said the Republican, who dreams of “recapturing” the White House in 2024.

He added that he was summoned to appear before a federal court in Miami on Tuesday (June 13).

He did not present any evidence for this claim, however a source of the Reuters news agency confirmed the information, explaining that Mr. Trump faces seven charges of illegal possession of classified documents and obstruction of justice.

In a video he later uploaded to the platform, the tycoon proclaimed his “innocence”.

In August 2022, federal police seized approximately 13,000 documents at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, Florida) residence. About 100 were classified, although his lawyer had assured him that all secrets had already been returned.

The former president has justified his withholding of the documents by asserting that he declassified them when he was still in office. He presented no evidence of this; his lawyers have made no such claim.

The candidate for the Republican nomination to be the party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election also faces several more headaches with the judiciary, notably an investigation into his and his allies’ efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election, when he was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden.

After all, he is the first – former or current – ​​president in US history to be prosecuted for forgery of his business documents, which was linked to the payment of money to a former porn star in order to buy her silence about past affairs them, ahead of the 2016 elections, which he won.