“We all need to be STRONG and DEFEAT of communists, marxists and lunatics on the left radicals who are systematically destroying our country,” he wrote on his social network Truth Social.

His troubles with the law have yet to affect his popularity with Republican voters, and opinion polls show him far ahead of his rivals in the race for the party’s presidential nomination. So far, his Republican opponents have overwhelmingly supported him.

Special Counsel Jack Smith accuses Trump from take thousands of papers containing some security secrets according to a grand jury indictment released last week, when he left the White House in January 2021 and haphazardly stored them at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, the most sensitive national records in the country.

Lawyers, including former Attorney General Trump, William Barr, tell me it’s a strong case. Charges include violations of the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the unauthorized possession of defense information, and conspiracy to obstruct justice, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Any federal trial in Florida will not take place until the November 2024 presidential election. Trump he is also due to appear in court in March 2024 in a separate case in a New York state court involving the payment of silence money to a porn star.