de oliveira. carlos de oliveira was added as a defendant in the case today in a superseding indictment which added nine new criminal charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual defendants, some of light all of them, and they re all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed by donald trump. the new defendant, carlos de oliveira, is a trump employee working in maintenance and on trump s florida residents. the three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit a fourth person to the conspiracy. they failed. and because they failed, we now know what really happened in donald trump s criminal conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents. on page 38 of today s superseding indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy is described. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was for trump to keep classified documents he had taken with him from the white house and to hide and conceal them from a fe
charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual defendants, some of light all of them, and they re all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed by donald trump. the new defendant, carlos de oliveira, is a trump employee working in maintenance and on trump s florida residents. the three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit a fourth person to the conspiracy. they failed. and because they failed, we now know what really happened in donald trump s criminal conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents. on page 38 of today s superseding indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy is described. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was for trump to keep classified documents he had taken with him from the white house and to hide and conceal them from a federal grand jury. donald j trump, walt t nauta and carlos de oliveira are now charged with participating in that conspiracy, a conspi
and the beginning of the day, all eyes were on this federal courthouse in washington d.c., where we have been awaiting a possible indictment of former president trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that indictment did not happen today. but this evening they d issued new charges against trump, just not for trying to overturn the 2020 election. today, locksmith issued additional charges against donald trump and the other case against him. the one dealing with his handling of classified documents down at mar-a-lago. special counsel smith issued what is called, in the business, it superseding indictment to add three new charges to the mar-a-lago case today. that is one count, one new count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction against both mr. trump, and his ballot. the special counsel also charged a new third defendant in that case. a man named carlos the olivera, which is the head of maintenance at mar-a-lago. an
what is called, in the business, it superseding indictment to add three new charges to the mar-a-lago case today. that is one count, one new count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction against both mr. trump, and his ballot. the special counsel also charged a new third defendant in that case. a man named carlos de oliveira, who is the head of maintenance at mar-a-lago. and it is the addition of mr. deliver at where things get really quite interesting. today s new charges all center around one of the enduring mysteries of this case, the mar-a-lago security footage. remember, that footage is the reason we know in the very first place that trump had boxes of documents moved around his property from the days leading up to a visit from federal investigators. we know that because there was literally tape of will not with boxes to and from that storage room to other parts of the property. but there were also gaps in the security foot
Fact the document charged in count 32 unless they have very crystal clear evidence of that. the consciousness of guilt on all three, on the part of all of them, the emoji, the audio ram, sneaking around the property, waving around the document then lying about it, knowing that it was not declassified, it s all in there. it s a real read, this indictment. lisa rubin, always good to see you. that is our show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. or good evening, alex. we have andrew weissmann joining us tonight, and he has been the hardest working man at this network today. i want to get to him as quickly as i can. as you should. thank, you alex. we now know who the star witness is going to be in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump, walt tea nauta and now carlos