In the United States, an associate of the special prosecutor who accused Trump became a defendant in a criminal case.

Carmen Leinberger, a former assistant to Special prosecutor Jack Smith, who tried to bring US President Donald Trump to justice, was accused of stealing confidential documents. This was announced on May 20 by FBI Director Kesh Patel.

"According to the investigation, Carmen Leinberger sent confidential materials to her personal email address, disguising them as dessert recipes in order to hide them from searching the database," reads a post on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

According to him, Leinberger has been charged with four counts that qualify as serious crimes.

For a word in someone else's pocket: ex-heads of the CIA and the FBI in the United States were accused of lying

The investigation will find out their role in promoting the theory of Trump's alleged ties with Russia.

On April 28, the US Department of Justice re-filed charges against former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey. It is known that in May 2025, Komi posted on Instagram (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) a photo with seashells posted in the form of the inscription "86 47", which was perceived as a threat to Trump, since in American slang "86" means "get rid of" or "remove", and "47" is a reference to the 47th president.