Trump co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira seeks dismissal from docs case: court filing

Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, who was indicted alongside former president Donald Trump in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case, is seeking to dismiss the counts against him.

Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian, flagged the court filing on social media.

"Trump employee Carlos De Oliveira files motion to dismiss counts against him in the superseding indictment charging him with obstruction in the classified docs case," Lowell reported on Thursday.

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"For the reasons stated below, the Superseding Indictment in this matter is constitutionally deficient as to Carlos De Oliveira and should be dismissed," according to the filing.

De Oliveira goes even further saying, "nowhere does the Superseding Indictment allege that Mr. De Oliveira has ever seen a classified document, or that he was aware of their existence and presence at Mar-a-Lago at any time."

"The Superseding Indictment is also devoid of any assertion that Mr. De Oliveira was aware of any government investigation at the time of his alleged actions in June 2022, that he was aware of any grand jury subpoena at the time, either for documents with classified markings or for Mar-a-Lago security video, or that he would have any understanding of the preservation and production obligations that such a subpoena would require," according to the new filing.

Trump and De Oliveira are two of the defendants charged in the case, in which Smith alleges the former president unlawfully stashed away documents and then tried to stop authorities from collecting them. The case has been rife with allegations that the jurist overseeing the litigation, Judge Cannon, is trying to tip the scales in favor of the man who nominated her to the very position that she still holds right now.