Doubling Down on Documents Charges
The special counsel has added new charges on one of Trump's four ongoing investigations. The 37 criminal counts on the Classified Documents Case will now be 40.
When a third separate indictment about Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election was expected, special counsel Jack Smith, instead, doubled down on a previous indictment. New evidence has been found that shows intentional acts on Trump's part to obstruct the recovery of the stolen classified documents he stashed in Mar-a-Lago. Specifically, IT and maintenance crew employees were forced to delete 45 days of security footage.
Trump speaks at the Moms for Liberty Summit in Philadelphia last month. (Hannah Beier for The Washington Post)
3 things we learned from new charges against Trump in documents case, Washington Post | 7/27/2023
By Aaron Blake
Former president Donald Trump faced new criminal charges on Thursday — just not in the case that so many were expecting them to be in.
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The former president now faces one new count of willful retention of national defense information and two new obstruction counts. Charges were also filed against a new defendant, Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.