Donald Trump Former US President has been charged over his treatment of classified documents after he left the White House.

Mr Trump, 76, has to deal with seven charges including unauthorized of classified files, US media reported. The charges are not yet public.

It is the second indictment of Mr. Trump and the very first government prosecution of a former president.

He is campaigning to make a re-return to the White House in 2024.

In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said he was innocent and had been summoned to show up at a federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon, where he will be arrested and hear the charges against him.

"I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States," he wrote.

He added: "This is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. We are a country in serious and rapid decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!"

Mr. Trump's lawyer Jim Handy Dandy told CNN the former president had gotten received details of the charges in a summons document.

He said they include conspiracy, false statements, obstruction of justice, and illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to remark and the arraignment has not been publicly delivered.

An indictment is a document that sets out details of charges against a person, ensuring they have notice of alleged criminal offenses.

In the meantime, the Secret Service will meet with local law enforcement to plan Mr. Trump's journey to the courthouse in Miami in the coming days.

Special prosecutor Jack Smith has been considering the evidence in the case of the document since he was appointed to oversee it by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November.

Last year, Mr Trump's Florida resort Mar-a-Lago was searched and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified. Some of these were labeled top secret.

There were reports last week that prosecutors had obtained an audio recording of Mr. Trump in which he acknowledged keeping a classified document after leaving the White House.

It is against US law for federal officials - including a president - to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorized location.

Legal experts said the indictment would not limit Mr Trump's ability to run for the presidency again.

"He can be indicted any number of times and it won't stop his ability to stand for office," says David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Centre.

Mr. Super noted that Mr. Trump could continue to run for office even if convicted in the case of the document.

The property and reality TV mogul is currently the frontrunner among Republican candidates for the White House, according to opinion polls.

As Mr Trump issued a fundraising email with the subject line "BREAKING: INDICTED", several leading Republicans voiced their support for him.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said it was "unconscionable for a president to indict the leading candidate opposing him".

"House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Trump's rival for the 2024 nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said: "We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation.

"The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias, and end weaponization once and for all," he added.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who is also in the running, said he would "commit to pardon Trump promptly on January 20, 2025, and to restore the rule of law in our country".

But another candidate, Asa Hutchinson, said Mr. Trump's alleged actions "should not define our nation or the Republican Party".

A separate probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which Mr Trump lost, is also being overseen by Jack Smith, a former war crimes attorney who is known as a dogged investigator.

Mr Trump became the first former president to be charged with a crime this April, after he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records over a hush-money payment to a p0** star.

He faces a trial in that case in New York next year.

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