Analysis: This is why Trump is being charged in Miami and not Washington, DC
Federal officials were scrambling with the logistics of how to prosecute former President Donald Trump in Miami. There had long been an assumption that federal charges against him would be in Washington.
However, it does make some sense for the case to be in Florida: That’s where Trump now lives most of the year, and it is also where the FBI conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago home and carted away boxes containing classified material.
There are other reasons, too. Trump has dismissed legal setbacks in New York – his company was convicted of tax evasion and he was found liable for sexual abuse – with the argument that New Yorkers are politically opposed to him.
That argument will be more difficult in Florida, a state he won in both 2016 and 2020, although President Joe Biden carried Miami-Dade County.
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