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For Trump, this was the kind of day that makes every future excuse sound cheaper. The documents case had now crossed the threshold from ugly optics to federal felony charges, and the political world was left watching whether his campaign could keep treating an escalating legal disaster like a normal news cycle.
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A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Donald Trump on charges tied to the classified-documents stash at Mar-a-Lago, escalating a long-running national-security mess into a formal criminal case. The move put a former president under federal indictment for the first time over alleged mishandling and obstruction around sensitive records.