“MAR-A-LAGO SECURITY TAPES WERE NOT DELETED. THEY WERE VOLUNTARILY HANDED OVER TO THE THUGS, HEADED UP BY DERANGED JACK SMITH,” Trump wrote in all caps on Truth Social.
Special Counsel Jack Smith had lodged three additional charges against the embattled former president Thursday night, including over Trump allegedly telling an underling to have surveillance footage scrubbed after the Justice Department subpoenaed for it last year.
Smith’s Thursday filing also slapped charges against Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos De Oliveira, who allegedly informed the resort’s IT director that “the boss” wanted the server scrubbed. It isn’t clear whether any footage was ever deleted. Trump, who pleaded not guilty to a 37-count related indictment last month, was slapped with an additional charge from Smith on Thursday for two counts of obstruction and one count of willful retention of national defense information over other documents at his Bedmister, NJ, golf resort.“What was the obstruction of justice? Because no tapes were deleted. He turned them over, he cooperated as he always does.
“If President Trump didn’t want something turned over, I assure you, that is something that could have been done. But he never would act like that. He is the most ethical American I know,” the lawyer said.
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