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Donald Trump indicted on seven charges in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An indictment is a formal charging document that\u2019s used when it\u2019s believed a person committed a crime. It includes charges against a person and should be filed before a case can move forward in a court, David Weinstein, a former federal and state prosecutor, previously told USA TODAY.<\/p>\n

An indictment means a grand jury decided that there\u2019s \u201cmore likely than not\u201d enough evidence \u2013 based on testimony \u2013 to move forward with charging a person, Weinstein said. In a federal court, all cases proceed via indictment.<\/p>\n

“Legally speaking, there is nothing to bar a former president from being indicted for a state crime, running for office \u2013 even convicted,” said Jessica Levinson, founding director of Loyola Law School’s Public Service Institute,\u00a0previously told USA TODAY.\u00a0“It really just becomes an issue of, practically, how could you run the country behind bars, if it ever came to something like that?”<\/p>\n

The Constitution only lays out three requirements to serve as president. You must be:<\/p>\n

Trump in a statement on Truth Social on Thursday said he was summoned to appear Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m<\/p>\n

A\u00a0classified document\u00a0includes information deemed sensitive by the government that may have a potential threat to national security if it is released in an unauthorized way. Most documents are classified for the purpose of national security.<\/p>\n

There are different levels of classified information: Top secret, secret and confidential. Each level of classification ranks the severity of how leaked information could impact national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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