He announced that he's been indicted following a long-running investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left office. This comes after an FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago home. In a video posted to the social platform, Truth Social, he called the charges a hoax. Hours earlier, his former vice president, Mike Pence, laid into his old boss while launching his own bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He said: 'Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again'
He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The former president denies wrongdoing, and any possible convictions are still a long way away, but how does this affect his election campaign? Wildfires raging across Canada are choking New Yorkers. We take a closer look at the air quality data. And Putin’s alleged birth mother dies in Georgia.
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