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Donald Trump Published June 8, 2023 9:58pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE: Trump says indictment is

'election interference at the highest
level'
Donald Trump says he will plead not guilty to charges related to his alleged retention of classified records

By Brooke Singman | Fox News

Nancy Mace: Biden just secured Trump's nomination in 2024

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., weighs in on the ‘unprecedented’ indictment of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents probe on ‘Fox News
Tonight.’

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump said his federal indictment is "election interference
at the highest level," telling Fox News Digital that the Biden administration is "the most
corrupt" in history.

During an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital Thursday night, Trump said the case is
"election interference" and "the greatest witch hunt of all time." Trump said he will "of
course" plead not guilty to charges in federal court on Tuesday, and said he is "totally
innocent."

Trump, the current front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary was indicted ,

on federal charges Thursday evening stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's
months-long investigation into the former president’s alleged improper retention of
classified records at Mar-a-Lago.

TRUMP INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES RELATED TO DOCUMENT HANDLING AND

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Trump is listed in the indictment, which has not been unsealed, as a criminal defendant
charged with at least seven counts involving obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and illegal
retention of classified government material. He has been ordered to appear in federal
court in Miami on Tuesday. The indictment remains unsealed.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in at the Waco Regional Airport in March 2023. (Brandon
Bell/Getty Images)

"This is the most corrupt administration in history—there has never been an administration
so corrupt, and they’re just starting to find it right now," Trump told Fox News Digital. "They
are trying to deflect all of their dishonesty by bringing this ridiculous boxes hoax case."

He added: "They’re not going to get away with it."

JOE BIDEN ALLEGEDLY PAID $5M BY BURISMA EXECUTIVE AS PART OF A BRIBERY

SCHEME, ACCORDING TO FBI DOCUMENT

"Idid absolutely nothing wrong," he said, citing the Presidential Records Act, saying it

"makes me totally innocent."

President Biden is under special counsel investigation for his alleged improper retention of
classified records from his time as vice president in the Obama administration and as a
senator.

When asked whether he thought Biden could, too, be charged, Trump said, "Probably not—
will happen."

A view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. March 31, 2023.
(REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo)

He said the indictment was handed down Thursday because it was the same day an
allegation, first revealed by Fox News Digital, emerged that Biden received $5 million for
involvement in a bribery scheme.

Fox News Digital, hours before the indictment, exclusively reported that a confidential
human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview that President Biden was
allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma
Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden sat on the board.

Sources familiar briefed Fox News Digital on the contents of the subpoenaed FBI-
enerated FD-1023 form alleging a criminal bribery scheme between then-Vice President
Joe Biden and a foreign national that involved influence over U.S. policy decisions.

President Joe Biden (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

"The reason that they did this today, at this time, is because of the fact that the $5 million
was found out in the document, and that’s just the beginning," Trump said.

Fox News Digital exclusively reported that the FD-1023 form was an interview with a
"highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he
or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, starting in 2015.
Fox News Digital has not seen the form, but it was described by several sources who are
aware of its contents.

TRUMP TARGETED: A LOOK AT PROBES INVOLVING THE FORMER PRESIDENT; FROM

STORMY DANIELS TO RUSSIA TO MAR-A-LAGO

Sources familiar told Fox News Digital that the confidential human source believes that
the $5 million payment to Joe Biden and the $5 million payment to Hunter Biden occurred,
based on his or her conversations with the Burisma executive.

President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National
Guard Base in Syracuse, New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The confidential source said the Burisma executive told him he "paid" the Bidens in such a
manner "through so many different bank accounts" that investigators would not be able to
"unravel this for at least 10 years."

The document then makes reference to "the Big Guy," which, has been said to be a More from Politics
reference to Joe Biden. 41 mins ago
DeSantis says
Trump a victim of
The Burisma executive told the confidential source that he "didn’t pay the Big Guy directly." law enforcement
'weaponization'
under Biden
A source familiar said according to the document, the $5 million payments appeared to
reference a kind of "retainer" Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to deal with a number of 2 hours ago
issues, including his effort to end the investigation into Burisma led by Ukrainian EXCLUSIVE: Trump
says indictment is
prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Another source referred to the arrangement as a "pay-to-play" 'election
scheme. interference at the
highest level'

Biden has acknowledged that when he was vice president, he successfully pressured 2 hours ago
Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Texas businessman
connected to Ken
Holdings, and at the time, Hunter had a highly-lucrative role on the board receiving Paxton
impeachment
thousands of dollars per month. The then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion arrested by FBI
of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.
3 hours ago
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump, pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Trump allies link ex-
p resident's
to launch investigations into the Biden family’s actions and business dealings in Ukraine — indictment to FBI's
Biden document:
pecifically Hunter Biden’s ventures with Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings and 'Radical Far Left will
Joe Biden’s successful effort to have Shokin ousted. stop at nothing'

Trump was later impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and
obstruction of Congress -- all stemming from the phone call and the question about the
Bidens' dealings. The Senate voted for acquittal in February 2020.

"Iwas asking the right question," Trump said, referring to his July 2019 phone call with
Zelenskyy. "I said, if you have any corruption on the Biden administration, call our attorney
general—I was doing my job—and it turns out, my job was done correctly."

Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at
Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.

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