Trump Indicted Trump Expected to Surrender on Tuesday After Indictment in Documents Case

 Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who Mr. Trump appointed to the bench in 2020, is scheduled, for now, to preside over his first appearance in Federal District Court in Miami.

Former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign event in New Hampshire in April.Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times

Here’s the latest on the charges Trump is facing.

Former President Donald J. Trump’s initial appearance to face federal criminal charges on allegations that he mishandled classified documents after leaving office and obstructed the government’s efforts to reclaim them will be before a judge he placed on the bench.

Mr. Trump is expected to appear in Federal District Court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon on charges including willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon is scheduled to preside over that initial hearing, according to people familiar with the matter. It was not clear whether Judge Cannon, who was criticized by a higher court for handing him a series of unusually favorable rulings during the early stages of the investigation, would remain assigned for the entirety of Mr. Trump’s case.

The indictment, handed up by a grand jury in the Federal District Court in Miami, is the first time a former president has faced federal charges. It puts the nation in an extraordinary position, given Mr. Trump’s status not only as a one-time commander in chief but also as the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to face President Biden, whose administration will now be seeking to convict his potential rival of multiple felonies.

“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been indicted,” Mr. Trump wrote, in one of several posts on Truth Social after he was notified of the charges on Thursday evening.

The indictment, filed by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, came about two months after local prosecutors in New York filed more than 30 felony charges against Mr. Trump in connection with a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election. The Justice Department made no comment and did not immediately make the indictment public.

Here’s what else to know:

• A federal grand jury has charged Mr. Trump with a total of seven counts, according to two people familiar with the indictment. The precise details of the charges are not yet clear.

• The indictment reaches back to the end of Mr. Trump’s term in January 2021, when the documents — many of which were said to be in the White House residence — were packed in boxes along with clothes, gifts, photographs and other material, and shipped by the General Services Administration to his private club and residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.

• A recording of a meeting involving Mr. Trump in July 2021, six months after leaving the White House, is expected to be a key piece of evidence against him. During that meeting, he described a document in front of him as “classified” and “highly confidential,” according to a person briefed on the matter.

• Mr. Trump remains under investigation by the federal counsel’s office for his wide-ranging efforts to retain power after his election loss in 2020, and how those efforts led to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He is also being scrutinized for potential election interference by the district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Ga. Read more about the various investigations.