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This is OnPoint. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

It's been one week since Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith

announced the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Good afternoon. Today, an indictment moves unsealed,

charging Donald J. Trump with felony violations of our national security laws,

as well as participating in a conspiracy to instruct justice.

That was Smith last Friday.

With the indictment, Trump makes history again.

The first president to be impeached twice is now the first former president

to face federal criminal charges, 37 in all.

We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.

Applying those laws, collecting facts, that's what determines the outcome of an investigation.

Nothing more and nothing less.

The defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty

beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

To that end, my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter,

consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused.

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