The Press Breathlessly Reports the Most Recent Trump Indictment

Surprise!

With reporters clustered at the DC federal courthouse awaiting a possible Trump indictment in the Jan. 6 case, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team dropped a new bombshell in Florida in the Mar-a-Lago case: a superseding indictment that adds new charges against Trump himself, co-defendant Walt Nauta, and a new third defendant.

Let’s run through the top points quickly:

• • The number of counts in the indictment swelled from 38 to 42.
  • Trump was hit with an additional charge of willful retention of national defense information (now 32 counts on that charge, up from 31) for the Iran war plan document he allegedly flaunted at Bedminster.
  • The new defendant, a MAL worker named Carlos De Oliveira was added to the existing conspiracy to obstruct justice count, so now all three defendants are charged in this count. In addition, De Oliveira gets his own false statements count.

• All three men were charged under a new count of altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object.
• All three men were charged under a new count of corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object.

The additional charges mostly have to do with a brazen alleged attempt to delete security camera footage at MAL after it was subpoenaed by a DC federal grand jury – and wow! The feds have the goods on Trump.

‘The Boss’ Was Directly Involved … Allegedly

The new evidence presented by prosecutors in the superseding Mar-a-Lago indictment is incredibly damaging for Trump – referred to at times by his employees simply as “the boss,” according to the indictment.

It alleges that Trump was directly in contact with Nauta and De Oliveira about deleting security footage at Mar-a-Lago that had been subpoenaed in the summer of 2022 by a federal grand jury in DC.