Special counsel Jack Smith and his team admitted to a slip-up in the Mar-a-Lago documents case discovery process.
the property manager at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, to find a way to delete surveillance footage that had been requested by the DOJ. De Oliveira was also named as a third co-defendant in the case, alongside Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta.
In addition to the new charges, Trump faces over 30 felony counts for willfully mishandling classified documents containing sensitive national security information in violation of the Espionage Act. The charges represent the first criminal charges for a former president in U.S. history. Trump and Nauta pleaded not guilty to the initial charges, with the former calling the investigation a politically motivated attempt to derail his 2024 presidential campaign.
Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to deliver remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against former President Donald Trump at the Justice Department on June 9, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been indicted on 37 felony counts in the special counsel's classified documents probe.
The letter explained that the materials were not previously provided by mistake, realizing the error as it prepared to submit the superseding indictment. The materials were originally obtained by the government in May, with the DOJ attesting in court on July 18 that all necessary files had been turned over, which it said in hindsight was"therefore incorrect."
"Included in Production 3 is additional CCTV footage from The Mar-a-Lago Club that the Government obtained from the Trump Organization on May 9 and May 12, 2023, in response to a grand jury subpoena served on April 27," the letter explained.
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