The 60-page indictment, blow-by-blow of alleged Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage obstruction
A revised indictment filed on Thursday by special counsel Jack Smith as per his classified documents investigation reportedly details how former President Donald Trump worked with two aides to delete Mar-a-Lago video surveillance footage.
The new indictment specifically charges Mar-a-Lago’s head of maintenance Carlos de Oliveira with conspiracy to obstruct justice, hiding documents, and lying to investigators.
It also adds new charges against Trump: “attempting to ‘alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence’; inducing someone else to do so; and a new count under the Espionage Act related to a classified national security document that he showed to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.,” according to The New York Times.
The story begins in January 2022, when Trump turned over 15 boxes of documents to the National Archives and Records Administration. After NARA soon realized the boxes contained classified documents, the agency alerted the Justice Department.
Four months later in May, federal authorities filed a subpoena demanding Trump turn over the remainder of the boxes of documents he had.
At this point, Trump told his valet, Walt Nauta, who’s already been indicted, to move the remaining documents to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago bedroom, as well as to his Bedminster golf club and a Mar-a-Lago storage closet.
FBI agents then visited the property on June 3rd to retrieve the documents. While there, the feds noticed the surveillance cameras. Later that month, they informed Trump’s legal team that they planned to subpoena the surveillance footage.
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