days after the watergate break in. many suspected it was the president himself who ordered its which brings us back to that nixon comparison, because nixon was only just accused of obstructing justice, in fact, he was also accused of destroying evidence as part of that cover-up during the watergate scandal. and during that investigation, it was discovered that nixon had a habit of reporting conversations in the white house, and those recordings were later subpoenaed by a special prosecutor, after which investigators noticed an 18 and a half minute gap in one of those tapes. now, while nixon s personal secretary claimed to have accidentally a raced the missing minutes, which are believed to contain a conversation between nixon and his chief of staff just three days after the watergate break in. many suspected it was the president himself who ordered its destruction. but that s where trump s parallel to the other disgraced ex president ends, because on august 8th 1974, just 12 days after
still live ear, it is over a alleged scheme to deletes footage after trump s lawyers have sent a draft subpoena for that footage. delivery are told employee for that the boss wanted to serve or deleted, so he insisted the server was deleted, then asked what it would do? he accuses trump of attempting to destroy so using trump s own logic from 2016, that a presidential candidate accused of skewing to destroy evidence and obstruct investigation shouldn t be allowed to run for president, trump has no choice. drop out. watch this space.
even if it might cause a little bit of a delay. he wants to have the strongest a number of things. first of all, a town involving the actual document that trump was waving around, trump claimed it was a newspaper, it was his bravado, it wasn t really classified document. now they have that document, they re charging that document, and then he s included this obstruction of conspiracy, involving the destruction of evidence. now they have that document, they re charging that document, and then he s included this obstruction of conspiracy, involving the destruction ofg tf very powerful evidence that frankly is a very powerful account that realistically the jury is going to have a lot of trouble excusing, a lot of trouble ignoring. you could say whatever you want about the presidential records act or about declassification, the bottom line is destroying evidence, that s the sort of thing that the average person could get their head around. so that s really important, and then there s als
letter, a possible indictment in the presidents attempt to overturn the 2020 election. we re waiting to see what happens in georgia. in a piece he wrote for msnbc. com that you call trump s election schemes quote, the greatest threat to the constitutional order in modern history. expand on that, and what happens if there is no accountability for trying to overturn the election? well, essentially, trump did tried to overturn the constitution. richard nixon corruptly use instruments of the government, but he wasn t on a mission to overturn the constitution itself. that s what trump tried to do, and it s worth noting, he has said that he intends if he is reelected to terminate aspects of the constitution. which is a stunning statement, and i ve learned as we went into this investigation, to pay attention to what trump says.
trump now faces a staggering total of 40 criminal counts in that case, the most serious of which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. now, in that superseding indictment, prosecutors have accused trump, along with his coconspirator walt nauta, and a new third defendant carlos de oliveira, a mar-a-lago maintenance worker attempting to delete surveillance video from the resort. coincidently, just after trump s lawyers received the grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on june 27th 2022, after some phone tag between trump, nauta, and de oliveira walked to the i. t. office at mar-a-lago and requested that he and an unnamed trump employee, the works well, the two men then went inside a closet and that s when dela told employees that their conversation should quote, remain between the two of them.