Donald Trump allegedly asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Mar-a-Lago estate in a bid to thwart the classified documents probe, according to a superseding indictment in the case that includes additional charges against the former president.
The updated federal indictment filed Thursday accuses Trump of additional acts of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information.
A third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, was also charged in the case Thursday, alongside Trump and valet Walt Nauta, who were both charged last month in a 38-count indictment with conspiring to hide classified documents at the 45th president’s Florida home.
Prosecutors believe Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Florida estate, helped the former president move 30 boxes from the premises to a storage room.
He then later moved the boxes to Trump’s estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, the indictment claims.
A Trump spokesperson dismissed the new charges as “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt” by the Biden administration “to harass President Trump and those around him” and to influence the 2024 presidential race.
With Post wires