Mr Trump received an additional charge of wilful retention of defence information, and two new charges of obstruction, the justice department said.
An additional person, Mar-a-Lago staff member Carlos de Oliveira, has also been indicted in the case.
Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Mr Trump’s aide Walt Nauta - who has similarly entered a not guilty plea - also received two additional counts of obstruction.
The new court documents outline alleged efforts between Mr Nauta and Mr de Oliviera, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, to obstruct the justice department’s investigation.
According to the new court documents, Mr Nauta and Mr de Oliveira conspired to delete footage from security cameras after the Department of Justice issued a subpoena asking for surveillance footage of the basement where it said confidential documents were held.
In the court documents, Mr de Oliveira is claimed to have texted another employee who was the director of information technology that “the boss” wanted the server deleted.
The documents allege that Mr de Oliveira later met with the employee in a small room, told him them their conversation should remain private, then pressured the man into obliging his request after the employee told Mr de Oliveira that he did not have the authority.
“What are we going to do,” Mr de Oliveira allegedly asked his co-worker. A lawyer for Mr de Oliveira has declined to comment.
Well. I guess now we know why he didn’t get charged in the other investigation this week.
No, the other other investigation. (It’s getting hard to keep track.)
I’m tracking the criminal cases here, just updated for the +3 new felonies. ;)
It seems I can’t link to post directly on another Lemmy instance but instead link via https://Lemmy.world/c/politics@beehaw.org
Nice. Well done.
Get Fukt Loser 🖕
Sincerely,
- All the Sane People
Ugh, my liver is going to HATE me. It’s Christmas in July baby!!
🥂📄🎅📄🦌📄🎁📄🎄
I’m not celebrating until he actually has repercussions.
What can I say? I’m a lush. 🤷🏽♂️
Yeah, this is the millionth article with the same sort of headline these last 7 years, and we have yet to see just the slightest hint of any actual repercussions for his life of crime.
Is it though? Has anything actually happened?
He’ll die of old age before anything comes out of this.
It’s interesting that the Right wing News purposeful misreporting what happens with Clinton is coming back to bite republicans.
Trump clearly thought that ignoring subpoenas and deleting evidence was fine because he was lied to that is what Clinton did.
Except that Clinton didn’t ignore subpoenas. She went down and testified under oath for 11 hours.
Yes, but right wing media has lied that she did ignore subpoenas.
Instead it was an IT worker who Clinton had told “Don’t delete these emails”
And republicans were in such a rush to charge Clinton that they granted immunity to the person who actually deleted the emails.
None of this has been truthfully reported by Fox News.
Here’s Trumps understanding:
“Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.”
Hell, the software IT used to delete the hard drive was called BleachBit. But right wing news has gotten that so wrong that republicans think she used literal acid lol.
Couldn’t even get their chemistry right
Ribbit
Because he’s wealthy. It’s that simple. When a rapist can get let off on ‘affluenza,’ the rich can get away with anything in the U.S.
As if the others weren’t, this one is really cut and fucking dry lol. Trump is a menace. The justice system should be designed specifically for people like this… but alas.
Saw a lawyer’s conservative estimate of Trump’s time in jail if he were convicted of everything at the time and it was something like 25 years I think, I wonder what that’s up to now?
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Umm, these are literally new charges. The headline is “Trump faces further charges…”
It’s listed as further charges cuz it a case he has already been indicted on. Even though they are new charges, they aren’t seperate legal charges requiring another indictment
The title of the article tells you that he’s facing additional charges…
They should keep investigating and keep hitting him with charges.
Pile them up, so Americans can see how shady this clown is behind the scenes. So sick of the incessant whitewashing by the right wing party/media apparatus.
Seriously, if you owned a used car lot, would you hire this fuckstick?
This… Is… Literally that.
They just bumped up the charges in the docs case from 37 felonies to 40… trial is May, 2024.
I set up a scorecard here:
