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Leftist Democrat 'squad' member Cori Bush led the charge in celebrating the imminent second indictment of former President Donald Trump, gloating in a now-deleted tweet.
Trump has been indicted for mishandling of classified documents and summoned to appear before a federal judge in Miami, he announced on Thursday. He has been charged with seven counts.
Bush, member of the left-wing progressive 'squad' started by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, initially tweeted her joy over the potential charges.
'The former white supremacist-in-chief has been indicted, again. He must be held accountable,' she wrote, before deleting just minutes later.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Representative Bush for further comment.
Leftist Democrat 'squad' member Cori Bush may have jumped the gun in celebrated the apparent imminent indictment of President Donald Trump, gloating in a now-deleted tweet
Other progressives joined in, however, after Trump announced himself that he would face indictment in Miami Tuesday.
Fellow squad member Ayanna Pressley wrote: 'Twice-impeached. Twice-indicted. One-term occupant of the White House.'
Yusef Salaam, a New York City Council candidate and member of the Central Park Five - now the 'Exonerated Five' - was a bit more blunt, writing: 'Karma - again.'
Trump notoriously took out a full page newspaper ads calling for New York to bring back the death penalty to punish the men, who were eventually exonerated.
Salaam previously branded Donald Trump's arrest in April 'karma' as he mimicked the former president's full-page ads three decades ago that called for his execution.
It is the second set of charges leveled at Trump this year, plunging the country into fresh legal and political uncertainty as he campaigns to return to office.
Prosecutors have investigating the transfer of presidential files to his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate since last year.
The probe exploded into the headlines in August when the FBI searched Trump's beachside home, recovering 11,000 documents, including about 100 that were marked as classified.
Trump has been indicted for mishandling of classified documents and summoned to appear before a federal judge in Miami, he announced on Thursday. He has been charged with seven counts
Yusef Salaam, pictured in August 1990, mimicked Donald Trump's full page ads thirty years after the former president called for his execution in the infamous Central Park Five case
For his part, Trump has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong and that he is the victim of a federal witch hunt.
At times the controversy has even boosted his standing in the polls and allowed him to raise money from supporters who see a 'deep state' plot to take him out of the 2024 race.
'The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is 'secured' by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time,' Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday night.
'I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!'
Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he had been indicted for mishandling classified documents
Security is already being increased around the courthouse in Miami ahead of his appearance before a judge, scheduled for 3pm on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, Trump took to his social media platform to condemn reports of looming charges.
'Wow, this is turning out to be the greatest and most vicious instance of election interference in the history of our country,' he wrote on Truth Social.
He had already earned the status of being the first former president to face criminal charges. Those relate to a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
In April, he appeared in Manhattan court where he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged plot to hide damaging information from voters before the 2016 election.
Trump pleaded not guilty.
Legal analysts believe the documents case could be more legally difficult for the former president.
During the past year, a grand jury has heard testimony from Mar-a-Lago employees and former administration officials who worked in Trump's post-presidential office.
One of the final witnesses was Mark Meadows, Trump's last White House chief of staff.
And Taylor Budowich, who served as a spokesman for Trump after his presidency and runs a pro-Trump political action committee, confirmed that he had given evidence too.
'Today, in what can only be described as a bogus and deeply troubling effort to use the power of government to "get" Trump, I fulfilled a legal obligation to testify in front a federal grand jury and I answered every question honestly,' he wrote on Twitter.
The investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents is being overseen by a special counsel, Jack Smith, who was appointed by the Attorney General Merrick Garland in November.
On Monday, Trump's attorneys met with Smith and his team in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, it was confirmed that Trump was an official target of the investigation.
Trump himself is currently in Bedminster, New Jersey, huddled with his advisors.
Smith's team has not commented on the charges,
