Tonight we have new reporting, which confirms something that up to this point we had only suspected.

Former President Donald Trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation into

the alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

That news was first reported today by the Guardian, citing two people who were briefed on the

matter.

Multiple outlets are now reporting that federal prosecutors notified Trump in a letter that

he is the target.

Now NBC News has not independently verified those reports.

But Donald Trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the White House and then

refused to comply with the Justice Department's order to return them.

So if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably Donald Trump.

For his part, Trump today posted a caps lock heavy statement arguing that being the target of an investigation

isn't really that big of a deal.

Quote, no one has told me I'm being indicted and I shouldn't be because I've done nothing wrong.

But I have assumed for years that I am a target of the weaponized DOJ and FBI.

As Trump rants about why he shouldn't be charged, we are learning more about what it might look like if he is.

The Washington Post was first to report today that if Trump is indeed criminally charged in the Mar-a-Lago

investigation, the bulk of the indictment against him will be brought in South Florida, according to people familiar with the matter.

Up until now, special counsel Dr. Smith has been running most of this investigation out of Washington, D.C.

But as the Guardian reports, prosecutors have concluded from the evidence that he was still president when classified documents were moved to Mar-a-Lago,

meaning Trump's unlawful possession only started in Florida.

Similarly, if prosecutors have also developed evidence that Trump knew he had retained national security documents after he left office at Mar-a-Lago,

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