Trump update

A former Trump White House lawyer said the evidence against the former president over his handling of classified documents was now “overwhelming” and would “last an antiquity”, after new charges were filed in the case on Thursday. Trump in Miami in June after appearing in court on charges of mishandling classified documents. “I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,” Ty Cobb told CNN. “This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”

In June, the special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 counts regarding his handling of classified records after leaving the White House. On Thursday, in a superseding indictment filed in a Florida court, four more charges were outlined. A second Trump staffer, the Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, was charged, alongside Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet. Nauta previously pleaded not guilty.Trump was accused of attempting to destroy evidence and inducing someone else to destroy evidence. He also faces a new count under the Espionage Act, for keeping a document about US plans to attack Iran which he famously discussed on tape. Trump denies all wrongdoing, in the documents case and in other cases including the criminal investigation in New York in which he faces 34 charges relating to hush-money payments to an adult film star.

New charges — and a new defendant — added to the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump underscore how the Mar-a-Lago investigation is still very much ongoing, even as the focus has been on an expected indictment in a separate case related to the 2020 election. In an updated indictment handed down Thursday, prosecutors allege that Trump asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into his possession of classified documents.  The indictment includes new counts of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information. Prosecutors also added a third defendant to the case: Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, who they say schemed with Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta, to conceal the footage from investigators.

  A new analysis from Seton Hall University reveals that the Biden administration has been absolutely crushing Jan. 6th insurrectionists in court — and Trumpers hate when the law applies to them. According to the historic report, 716 people were prosecuted in the first year following the deadly storming of the Capitol. Stunningly, the U.S. government has won all but 12 of the cases it has brought, a truly impressive success rate. Of those 716 cases, 517 of them or 72% were a result of information provided by tipsters or informants, meaning that the American people outside of the fascist MAGA movement are united in bringing these traitors to justice. Of the 12 cases that the Justice Department was unable to win, five of them fell apart because the defendants died and four of them because the descendants fled. One was was acquitted and two were dismissed. 25% of defendants were armed. 18.5% had backgrounds in law enforcement or the military. 24.7% were business owners. Only 22.2% had a criminal record.