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Former President Donald Trump was noticeably absent from a big family photo taken at his granddaughters bat mitzvah in Miami over the weekend days after his history-making indictment in the classified documents case.

The family snap sans the 76-year-old was among a trove of glamorous portrait shots shared by Ivanka Trump on Instagram late Monday to mark her 13-year-old daughter Arabella Kushnersbat mitzvah celebrations.

All four adult Trump siblings Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric and Tiffany posed alongside their significant others for the photo.

Even Don Jr.s ex-wife made the cut. A smiling Vanessa Trump, who filed for divorce in 2018, was pictured standing next to her ex-husbands new fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle.

While the elder Trump was nowhere to be seen in the family snap, Ivanka did share several photos to her Instagram Story of the ex-prez and wife Melania posing with Arabella several weeks earlier at a birthday party they threw for the teen.

Thank you Dad and Melania for throwing Arabella the sweetest birthday dinner at Mar-a-Lago a few weeks ago in advance of her Bat Mitzvah! It was very special. We love you both so much! Ivanka wrote alongside one of the pics.

The former first daughter did not address the indictment that was handed down against Trump last Thursday and unsealed a day later, which accuses him of keeping top secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and trying to hide them from federal authorities when they demanded them back.

Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have steered clear of involvement in Donald Trumps third consecutive White House run, and a source told Page Six last week that the Miami-based former first daughter will be staying far away from Daddy.

Trump is believed to have missed out on his granddaughters celebrations after spending the weekend holed up at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. He jetted down to Miami on Monday afternoon ahead of his historic arraignment in federal court.

The 45th president, whohas professed his innocence and vowed to continue his 2024 White House campaign, is facing 37 felony counts including 31 related to the willful retention of national defense information.

Trump is accused of taking some 11,000 documents some containing sensitive national security secrets when he left the White House in January 2021 and hoarding them haphazardly at hisPalm Beach estate.

He then allegedly sought to obstruct government efforts to recover the documents, including by directing personal aide Walt Nauta who was also charged in the indictment to move boxes to conceal them.

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No one in the United States has written with more eloquence and insight about Donald Trump than his niece Mary, a clinical psychologist whose 2020 book Too Much and Never Enough sold one million copies on its first day on the shelves. New Republic editor Michael Tomasky spoke with her Monday afternoon, the day before her uncle was scheduled to present himself to south Florida federal authorities for arraignment on the 37 counts filed against him last week by special prosecutor Jack Smith.

On the charges themselves: I dont think theres any case that can be made in defense of his actions. On his state of mind: Hes feeling terrible fear. Hes lashing out, Mary Trump said, because lashing out has always worked before. Somehow, he has always slid out of situations just by outlasting his adversarieswith more money, more lawyers, more time, more patience. For Donald, it has almost always been about running out the clock, she said.

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Donald Trump supercharged his tears in their eyes routine in response to his indictment alleging themishandling of classified documents.

The former presidents shtick about big, strong guys welling up in his presence went up several notches Saturday when he ranted in all caps in a post on his Truth Social platform: America went to sleep last night with tears in its eyes.

The 2024 Republican presidential candidate continued:

Someday soon, however, it will be able to wipe away those tears and smile, bigger than ever before. For we will have defeated the radical left marxists, fascists, communists, lunatics, & deranged maniacs, & cleared the path to put America first & then, quickly, make America great again.

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Trumps tears in his eyes routinebecame news againlast month when his former White House press secretary-turned-Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany used it after being attacked by her former boss.

Trump has previously claimed his 2024 Republican rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, had tears in his eyes when begging for an endorsement in his 2018 governors race. He also said New York courthouse employees were in tears when he was being arraignedin the Stormy Daniels hush money payment case in April.

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The federal indictment against Donald Trump was made public on Friday (June 9), detailing charges surrounding the former presidents handling of government documents after leaving the White House.

Among the 44-page historical indictment listing the 37 felony countsagainst Trump was a section that caught the eye of multiple Twitter users. In August or September 2021, at The Bedminster Club, Trump showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map related to a military operation, the indictment reads, as Twitter users began speculating and connecting the statement to a 2022 interview Kid Rock had with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.

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Were looking at maps and s, and Im like, Am I supposed to be in on this s? Kid Rock a longtime and outspoken supporter of Trump told the Fox News anchor, who broke out into laughter. I make dirty records sometimes. What do you think we should do about North Korea? Im like, What? I dont think Im qualified to answer this.

It has not been confirmed that the section of the indictment is in reference to Kid Rock.

The indictment filed against Trump includes 31 counts of willful retention of classified documents, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of withholding a document or record, one count of corruptly concealing a document or record, one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation, one count of scheme to conceal and one count of making false statements and representations.

The former president is summoned to appear in court for an arraignment on Tuesday (June 13).

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Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsels office, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Meadows is a figure in both of the two distinct lines of inquiry being pursued by the special counsel appointed to oversee the Justice Departments scrutiny of Mr. Trump, Jack Smith.

One inquiry is focused on Mr. Trumps efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol during congressional certification of the Electoral Collegeresults on Jan. 6, 2021. The other is an investigation into Mr. Trumps handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them.

It is not clear precisely when Mr. Meadows testified or if investigators questioned him about one or both of the cases.

For months, people in Mr. Trumps orbit have been puzzled by and wary about the low profile kept by Mr. Meadows in the investigations. As reports surfaced of one witness after another going into the grand jury or to be interviewed by federal investigators, Mr. Meadows has kept largely out of sight, and some of Mr. Trumps advisers believe he could be a significant witness in the inquiries.

Mr. Trump himself has at times asked aides questions about how Mr. Meadows is doing, according to a person familiar with the remarks.

Asked about the grand jury testimony, a lawyer for Mr. Meadows, George Terwilliger, said, Without commenting on whether or not Mr. Meadows has testified before the grand jury or in any other proceeding, Mr. Meadows has maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has a legal obligation to do so.

Mr. Meadows was a polarizing figure at the White House among some of Mr. Trumps aides, who saw him as a loose gatekeeper at best during a final year in which the former president moved aggressively to mold the government in his image.

Mr. Meadows was around for pivotal moments leading up to and after the 2020 election, as Mr. Trump plotted to try to stay in office and thwart Joseph R. Biden Jr. from being sworn in to succeed him. Some of them were described in hundreds of text messages that Mr. Meadows turned over to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol before he decided to stop cooperating. Those texts served as a road map for House investigators.

But Mr. Meadows also has insight into efforts by the National Archives to retrieve roughly two dozen boxes of presidential material that officials had been told Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Mr. Meadows was one of Mr. Trumps representatives to the archives, and he had some role in trying to discuss the matter with Mr. Trump, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Meadows is also now connected tangentially to a potentially vital piece of evidence that investigators uncovered in recent months: an audio recording of an interview that Mr. Trump gave to two people assisting Mr. Meadows in writing a memoir of his White House years.

Mr. Meadows did not attend the meeting, which took place in July 2021 at Mr. Trumps club at Bedminster, N.J. During the meeting, Mr. Trump referred to a document he appeared to have in front of him and suggested that he should have declassified it but that he no longer could, since he was out of office.

That recording could undercut Mr. Trumps claim that he believed he had declassified all material still held at his properties for months after he left office.

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