Personnel for the Secret Service will meet with Trump's team tomorrow to begin security and logistics planning related to his planned appearance in federal court next week, a Secret Service official said.

Trump is expected to appear in court Tuesday.

The White House had no notice of Trump's indictment and learned about it from media reports, a White House official said.

Earlier Thursday, before Trump announced that he had been informed of the indictment, Biden said he has been hands-off.

“I have never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bring any charges or not bring any charges,” Biden said at the end of a joint news conference today with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the White House.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement that Trump's indictment means he "put our national security in grave danger as he pursued yet another lawless personal agenda by pilfering and hoarding government documents."

Raskin, who was the lead manager for Trump's second impeachment trial after the Jan. 6 riot, responded to criticism from Republicans that the indictment is a result of a "two-tiered" system of justice. He said congressional Republicans should respect the outcome of the special counsel's probe.

"Dangerous rhetoric about a ‘two-tiered system of justice’ — discriminating against the rich no less — in order to prop up the twice-impeached former president not only undermines the Department of Justice but betrays the essential principle of justice that no one is above the commands of law, not even a former President or a self-proclaimed billionaire," he said.

Raskin said Democrats are "determined to understand the full sweep of Trump’s unlawful possession of hundreds of government documents and his offenses against our government and people."

The seven charges Trump faces include making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct, two sources briefed on the charges confirmed.

All of the charges are related to retaining documents and obstructing justice, the sources said.

One of the sources noted that seven charges may not equal seven counts; multiple counts can be connected to each charge.

Moments after Pence launched his campaign Wednesday in Ankeny, Iowa, I asked him face to face whether Trump should end his campaign if a federal indictment came down.

Pence had just said from the stage that Trump had asked him to violate the U.S. Constitution and that anyone who does that should not be president.

He looked me in the eye, patted me on the shoulder and walked away, declining to answer the question.

Pence has not made a statement since news of Trump's indictment broke Thursday evening.

The Trump political team tonight blasted text messages to congressional Republicans sharing Trump's Truth Social post and a video in which the former president declares his innocence, two House GOP lawmakers who received the texts told NBC News.

Trump "has had his political messaging team sharing his views on this and other issues via text since his presidential announcement bid," said Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., who is on the text messaging list.

Goldman, D-N.Y., the lead counsel in Trump's first impeachment inquiry in the House and a former federal prosecutor, said tonight that the U.S. was founded on the principle that " no person, not even a former President, is above the law."

"Special counsel Jack Smith is a career prosecutor of the utmost integrity, and despite the surefire attacks that will come his way from Trump’s supporters, I am confident that the special counsel has considered only the facts, evidence and the law — without fear or favor, as he swore to — in deciding to pursue these charges," Goldman said in an interview.

The U.S. legal system is "designed to vindicate the robust rights of all defendants," Goldman said, adding that Trump has the right to a trial by jury and to confront his accusers and to have legal counsel.

"If he believes that the legal or factual basis for his indictment is unfounded, he can make that argument to a judge, who decides the law, or a jury, which decides the facts," he said. "But this case should be litigated in the court of law, not the court of public opinion, and most definitely not the halls of Congress."

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a GOP presidential contender, defended Trump in an interview with Fox News tonight, saying he will “continue to pray for our nation” and pray that “justice prevails.”

“We look at every case based on evidence in America,” Scott said. “Every person is presumed innocent, not guilty, and what we’ve seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the Department of Justice against the former president.”

Scott said he has not spoken to Trump since the indictment.

He said that if he is elected president, he would "purge" injustices to give Americans "confidence that they will be seen by the Lady of Justice with a blindfold on."

Scott is the first GOP presidential candidate to have responded to the indictment news on camera.

The new federal charges against Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents put him — and voters — in an unprecedented situation as he asks the American people to send him to the White House again while he faces more criminal charges.

Trump’s previous indictment in New York, on charges alleging falsification of business documents, didn’t move the political needle much. In fact, it prompted Republicans to rally around him.

The new federal charges are of a different, serious nature, so it’s unclear how the public may digest the accusations and the coming trial. But recent polling explains what Americans think about the prospect of’s Trump being charged with crimes, including some specifically about an indictment related to his handling of classified documents.

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