Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A grand jury within the Southern District of Florida has charged former President Donald Trump with a brand new rely of willful retention of National Defense Information within the case associated to his dealing with of labeled paperwork. The new cost stems from a top-secret presentation Trump waved at aides at his Bedminster, N.J., resort.

A brand new defendant was additionally added to the indictment in opposition to Trump and his aide Walt Nauta. Carlos de Oliveira, 56, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., was added to the obstruction conspiracy charged within the authentic indictment.

The superseding indictment fees Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts based mostly on allegations that they instructed an unnamed, fourth employee to delete surveillance video footage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence final summer time “to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.”

The indictment charged De Oliveira with false statements and representations made in a interview with the FBI on Jan. 13, 2023. He is predicted to seem at a federal courthouse in Miami on July 31. His lawyer John Irving declined remark.

Trump faces greater than three dozen counts, together with greater than 30 violations of the Espionage Act, over allegations of withholding paperwork associated to nationwide safety. He’s additionally charged, together with Nauta, with making false statements and conspiring to impede justice. The trial is about for May 20, 2024. That schedule places the trial on the tail finish of the Republican presidential major course of. Trump is at present the front-runner for the GOP nomination and already might have change into the nominee by that point.

“This 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,” the Trump marketing campaign mentioned in a written assertion following the brand new fees.

The White House has persistently denied any involvement or coordination within the particular counsel probes of Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith final winter to emphasise the independence of the probe.