Trump faces three additional charges in the classified documents case.
Former President Donald Trump Faces Additional Criminal Charges in Handling of Classified Material
Special Counsel Jack Smith has recently charged former President Donald Trump with additional criminal counts in his ongoing investigation. These charges specifically focus on Trump’s handling of classified U.S. material after leaving office.
In this latest development, the former president now faces one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. These charges stem from alleged attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after investigators had delivered a subpoena to Trump, requesting the materials he possessed.
One of the most significant revelations in the new superseding indictment is that prosecutors now have in their possession the document that Trump showed to a writer and a publisher during a recorded interview in July 2021 at his golf club in Bedminster.
After being initially indicted in the case, Trump claimed in media interviews that he was not holding any documents and that it was merely a case of him displaying too much “bravado.”
“I would say it was bravado; if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump said. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.”
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However, the new superseding indictment makes it clear that prosecutors are now in possession of the document.
“The document that TRUMP possessed and showed on July 21, 2021, is charged as Count 32 in this Superseding Indictment,” the indictment states.
According to prosecutors, when FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022, collecting classified documents, they noticed surveillance cameras near the storage room. A few weeks later, the Department of Justice contacted Trump’s team, informing them of the need for the video footage from those cameras.
As a result, Trump, co-defendant Walt Nauta, and newly added co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker, have all been charged in connection with an alleged attempt to delete surveillance footage at the property.
The indictment outlines the charges against Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira:
- Knowingly combining, conspiring, confederating, and agreeing with each other and others to engage in misleading conduct toward another person and corruptly persuade another person to withhold a record, document, and other object from an official proceeding.
- Corruptly persuading another person, with the intent to cause and induce any person to alter, destroy, mutilate, and conceal an object with the intent to impair the object’s integrity and availability for use in an official proceeding.
- Corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, and concealing a record, document, and other object from an official proceeding.
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