Trump will not be charged for waving around classified papers, judge says

Trump will not be charged for waving around classified papers, judge says

Aileen Cannon ruled ex-president would not be charged for waving classified papers as that conduct was not on trial

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents agreed on Monday to expunge from the indictment a paragraph about an episode where the former president waved around a classified document at his Bedminster club in New Jersey.

The US district judge Aileen Cannon ruled she would strike the paragraph because Trump was not charged with a crime for the conduct it described and would be unfairly prejudicial if a jury later saw it at trial.

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