WASHINGTON: US prosecutors broadened their criminal case against Donald Trump on Thursday (Jul 27), bringing new charges against the former president and accusing a second of his employees with helping to evade officials who were trying to recover sensitive national security documents he took from the White House.
Citing an incident in which Trump, a Republican, bragged about a"plan of attack" against another country in an interview at his New Jersey golf resort, Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with willfully retaining classified records, adding to the 37 criminal counts Trump already faces in the case.
According to the indictment, Trump explained the document was highly classified. Nobody else in the room had the authority to examine it, Smith wrote. Smith also brought new criminal charges against Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to the charges, De Oliveira helped to hide sensitive government documents from officials who tried to recover them.
"This is nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by Biden family and DOJ," a Trump campaign statement said following the additional charges in the documents case.
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