Donald Trump Charged With More Federal Crimes In Classified Documents Case

Former President Donald Trump faces three new felony charges in the special counsel’s investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, including two accusing him of ordering the deletion of a computer server holding incriminating security camera footage.

The charges include additional counts of willful retention of documents and obstruction of justice, according to a superseding indictment filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The new counts came at the same time as a third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago, was charged in the classified documents case. Trump and his aide Walt Nauta had previously been charged last month. Both have pleaded not guilty.

The new charges center on surveillance video from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, where the sensitive documents were kept, alleging all three men attempted to “delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.”

Justice Department investigators had subpoenaed the footage after FBI agents noticed surveillance cameras near a storage room in the basement of the resort as they attempted to recover the cache of documents last year.