Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that the Trump documents case was now « much, much stronger. »
New charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified-documents case provide « devastating proof » that the ex-president is guilty of obstruction, according to former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.
Special Counsel Jack Smith hit Trump with three additional charges in a superseding indictment filed on Thursday. The former president, who pleaded not guilty to the 37 counts filed in the initial indictment last month, was charged with two additional obstruction counts and one additional count of willfully retaining national defense information.
Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos De Oliveira also joined Trump and his aide Walt Nauta as an additional co-defendant in the case. Federal authorities accuse De Oliveira, chief of maintenance at Mar-a-Lago, of intentionally flooding an area used to house security video logs. He was charged with obstruction, making false statements and concealing, mutilating or destroying materials.
Weissmann, who served as lead prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump 2016 campaign and Russian election interference, said during an MSNBC appearance on Thursday that the suspending indictment is damning for Trump since it accuses the ex-president of ordering the destruction of surveillance footage.
