JUST IN: Special counsel Jack Smith has charged a third defendant in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump and his aide, Walt Nauta, were charged last month. Both have pleaded not guilty to all charges. De Oliveira was the maintenance worker who helped Nauta move boxes of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department first subpoenaed Trump for classified documents last May.
Justice Department officials came to Mar-a-Lago the day after Corcoran’s search, and Corcoran handed over 38 classified documents he had found. Yet the FBI retrieved more than 100 more classified documents when it searched Mar-a-Lago in August, both in the storage room and Trump’s office. The Justice Department has subsequently said in court that it believes “government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room.
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