investigation, a month after indicting him on dozens of felony counts. in addition to more obstruction charges, the special counsel is now charging the former president with the willful retention of a national defense document. according to this indictment, it is the one he mentioned during the taped discussion two years ago with biographers working for his former white house chief of staff mark meadows, none of whom, all the people in the room, again, according to the indictment, possessed a security clearance. here is that recording. these are bad, sick people. that was your coup, you know, against you. well, it started when milley is talking about oh, we re going to try and do no, they were trying to do that before you were even sworn in. that s right, trying to overthrow. well, milley, let me see that. i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. this thing just came up. look. this was him. th
new indictments. it comes as he reacts on the campaign trail to his latest charges and the classified documents case. they waited two and a half, almost three years, so they could bring him right in the middle of my presidential election. its election interference. i consider it actually a great badge of honor. i do. it s a great badge of honor. i m been indicted for you. new reporting from the washington post shows financial pressure is building. people familiar with the matter say trump s political group spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend the former presidents and his advisers and others. for more today, presidential candidate will hurt says the voters might start to take notice where their donations to trump are going. donald trump, all he s doing is litigating past elections. when people start learning, when you give money to donald trump it s going to pay his lawyers, three out of $4 that donald trump raises this going
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
eyes were on this courthouse in washington, d.c. where we have been awaiting a possible indictment of donald trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that indictment did not happen today, but then this evening special counsel jack smith did issue new charges against trump just not for trying to overturn the 2020 election. today jack smith issued additional charges against donald trump in the other case against him, the one dealing with his handseling of classified documents down at mar-a-lago. special counsel smith issued what is called in the business a superseding indictment, to add three new charges to the mar-a-lago case today. that s one count one new count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction against both mr. trump and his valet, walt nauta. the special counsel also charged a new third defendant in that case, a man named carlos de oliveira, the head of maintenance at mar-a-lago. today s new charges all cen