5m ago / 6:41 PM EDT
Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira charged with new obstruction counts over alleged attempts to delete video footage
Under the superseding indictment, prosecutors have charged Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira with two new obstruction counts based on allegations that they attempted to delete surveillance video footage at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2022.
1m ago / 6:44 PM EDT
Trump faces additional charges in superseding indictment
Trump faced additional charges in a superseding indictment that was returned by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida.
The former president is charged with one additional count of willful retention of National Defense Information, according to the new filing.
The superseding indictment also charges Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts stemming from allegations that they attempted to delete surveillance video footage last summer at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
16m ago / 6:29 PM EDT
Read the full superseding indictment
Read the full 60-page superseding indictment filed against Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira on Thursday.
26m ago / 6:19 PM EDT
Third defendant Carlos De Oliveira faces several charges
The third defendant added to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Carlos De Oliveira, faces the following charges:
- Conspiracy to obstruct justice
- Altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object
- Corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a document, record, or other object
- False statements and representations
26m ago / 6:19 PM EDT
Special counsel Jack Smith files new indictment leveling additional charges against Trump, adds new defendant
Special counsel Jack Smith has filed new indictment leveling additional charges against Trump and adding new defendant.
30m ago / 6:15 PM EDT
Lawyer for new defendant in classified docs case declines comment
John Irving, a lawyer for Carlos De Oliveira, declined to comment to NBC News when asked about his client being added today as the third defendant in Trump’s classified docs case.
33m ago / 6:13 PM EDT
Trump campaign says adding new defendant to classified docs case is another attempt to harass former president
Steven Cheung, the press secretary for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, said in a statement tonight that the addition of a third defendant to the Mar-a-Lago case is “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him.”
Cheung added, “Deranged Jack Smith knows that they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and to get someone other than Donald Trump to run against Crooked Joe Biden.”
6m ago / 6:39 PM EDT
Special counsel adds third defendant in classified docs case
The special counsel has added a third defendant in the classified documents case, Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker from Mar-a-Lago, according to a Thursday filing.
The development comes after Trump was previously indicted and pleaded not guilty in June to charges stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
1h ago / 5:23 PM EDT
Barricades go up outside Fulton County courthouse ahead of possible indictments in election interference probe
Barricades were erected outside the Fulton County courthouse in Georgia yesterday in preparation for possible indictments in a probe that looked into whether Trump and his allies interfered in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, informed law enforcement earlier this year that the courthouse needed to be secured for the period of July 31 to Aug. 18 for any possible indictments.
2h ago / 4:38 PM EDT
Trump campaign fundraises off of grand jury meeting
In a fundraising email this afternoon, the Trump campaign cited the ongoing grand jury meeting in soliciting donations.
Trump repeated his claims that the special counsel’s investigation is a “witch hunt” by the “Deep State” and questioned the timing of today’s grand jury meeting.
Trump has raised funds in the wake of previous indictments, including the week after his indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents and his indictment in a hush-money case.