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not cleared to see them at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, it said.
Trump faces 37 separate counts in the indictment including 31 counts of “willful retention of national defense information,” which carries up to 10 years in prison on each count.
Other charges include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document and false statements.
“The classified documents Trump stored in the boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries,” the indictment said.
Other records dealt with US nuclear programs and the potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack along with plans for retaliation, it said.
“The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the Untied States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources,” according to the indictment.
Trump is to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday for an initial hearing in the case, the first ever in which a former US president faces federal criminal charges.
Trump announced on his Truth Social platform Thursday that he had been indicted by the “corrupt Biden Administration” in what he called the “Boxes Hoax.”
In a defiant video, Trump repeatedly declared his innocence and framed the indictment as election interference by a Justice Department “weaponized” by the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden.
“They come after me because now we’re leading in the polls again by a lot against Biden,” Trump said in the clip.
Trump was already the first former or sitting president to be charged with a crime -- in his case over election-eve hush money payments to a porn star who said she had an affair with him.
That indictment was handed down by Manhattan’s district attorney in March.
The classified documents investigation was carried out by a special counsel, Jack Smith, who was named by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Smith is also looking into whether Trump should face charges over the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.
And Georgia prosecutors are investigating whether Trump illegally attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome in the southern state.

Two children ‘still critical’ after France knife attack
AFP, Paris
Two children were fighting for their lives a day after being stabbed by a man in a park in the French Alps, the government said yesterday.
“There are still two children considered to be in critical condition,” government spokesman Olivier Veran said in an interview with French media, adding that the children had undergone “surgical interventions”.
He also cautioned against jumping to conclusions in the case, in which the alleged attacker is a Syrian refugee.
“We obviously need transparency, and everything must be done so that this type of drama does not happen again, but once we have done preliminary work,” he said.
In an attack that shocked the nation, a man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and two adults Thursday at a playground and public park in the normally tranquil lakeside town of Annecy.
The child victims were aged between 22 and 36 months.
The motive for the rampage remained unclear, with a local prosecutor saying “there’s no obvious terrorist motive”.
The alleged attacker was a Syrian refugee, identified as Abdalmasih H, who officials said was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said he was “not known by any intelligence service” and did not have “any history of psychiatric problems”.
Recently divorced from a Swedish national and in his early 30s, the suspect had previously lived for 10 years in Sweden where he was granted refugee status in April, security sources and his ex-wife told AFP.
He had also sought asylum in Switzerland, Italy and France. The French application was rejected last Sunday as he already enjoyed refugee status in Sweden, officials said.