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Trump hit with new charges for working with Mar-a-Lago aides to delete security footage

According to CNN, former President Donald Trump has been hit with a superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, along with his body man Walt Nauta and maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, reported the network on Thursday.

The indictment alleges that the three of them plotted to delete security footage from the premises, as part of a plot to obstruct the investigation into Trump retaining and moving around the documents.

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Third defendant named in Mar-a-Lago docs case — and more could be coming: report

A third person has been indicted in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Thursday.

Carlos De Oliveira, head of maintenance at Mar-a-Lago, has been charged in connection with the case. As of press time, the charges against him are unknown; however, according to CNN, he was identified moving boxes around, which means he could have been part of a scheme to criminally obstruct the investigation.

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Trump’s lawyers may be trying to go over Jack Smith’s head to thwart indictment: legal expert

A prominent legal expert on Thursday suggested that Donald Trump's lawyers are likely to try to go over Jack Smith’s head in a meeting with the special counsel’s superiors aimed at thwarting a potential third indictment against the former president.

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House with Nicole Wallace” said he believed Trump’s lawyers are likely seeking a meeting with Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller.

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Legal experts expect 'massive detail' of Trump's crimes in upcoming indictment: CNN

Former President Donald Trump managed to avoid being indicted on Thursday, as the grand jury did not issue any decision and his legal team met with special counsel Jack Smith to try to get it pushed back.

But it is still overwhelmingly likely to happen in coming days — and, correspondent Jamie Gangel suggested on CNN, it is likely to contain extensive new details of Trump's involvement in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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'Jack Smith isn’t about to flinch': Ex-prosecutor says Trump is playing chicken with DOJ

Donald Trump is playing "chicken" with special counsel Jack Smith, and that's a game the former president is going to lose, a former prosecutor said on Thursday.

Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, who spent 20 years as a federal prosecutor, posted about the looming indictment against Trump on her blog. Vance previously said Trump's strategy for dealing with the criminal classified documents case against him is to hold out hope that at least one juror is a die-hard supporter who will refuse to convict him.

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Trump team made last-ditch effort to delay indictment at Jack Smith meeting: report

Former President Donald Trump's legal team sought a meeting with special counsel Jack Smith Thursday with the intent of delaying the grand jury from handing down an indictment, reported CNN.

The meeting came as the grand jury debating the case convened again – and Trump's lawyers were told to expect an indictment. Ultimately it was not issued Thursday.

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Trump's Jan. 6 indictment not expected Thursday: court official

An official at the Washington D.C federal courthouse where a grand jury is investigating former President Donald Trump's role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election said no indictment had been returned Thursday and none was expected for the rest of the day, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports.

Trump earlier in the day posted on his Truth Social website that his legal team met with the special counsel Jack Smith's investigators in what he described as a “productive” meeting.

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Barricades go up outside Fulton County courthouse as DA nears decision on indicting Trump

Barricades went up outside the Fulton County courthouse on Thursday as District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly nears a decision on whether to indict Donald Trump over allegations the former president tried to undermine the results of Georgia’s 2020 election, New Yorker staff writer Charles Bethea reported from Atlanta.

Bethea posted video on social media showing a long column of orange barriers lined up on the edge of a one-way street in front of the courthouse.

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Trump reacts to DOJ meeting: Don't indict me again or it will 'further destroy our country'

Taking to his Truth Social media platform, former President Donald Trump addressed reports that his lawyers were meeting with Department of Justice officials on Thursday morning where they were reportedly informed he was definitely going to be indicted.

All morning reports have been rolling in as a Washington D.C. grand jury was meeting and that an indictment related to the Jan. 6 insurrection was imminent.

With that in mind, the former president said it was a "productive meeting" with special counsel Jack Smith's investigators.

On Truth Social, he wrote, "My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers, and that an Indictment of me would only further destroy our Country."

He then added, "No indication of notice was given during the meeting — Do not trust the Fake News on anything!"

'The train has left the station': Expert says nothing Trump's lawyers can do to 'derail' the coming indictment

According to MSNBC legal analyst Ken Dilanian, now that it appears the Department of Justice will be indicting Donald Trump for his actions tied to the Jan 6 insurrection and attempts to tamper with the election results, it is too late for the former president to make a last-minute bid to "derail" the inevitable.

Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, Dilanian was asked about the meeting Trump's lawyers Todd Blache and John Lauro were having with special counsel Jack Smith's office on Thursday morning and stated that, at this late date, the indictment is inevitable.

With the Washington Posts' Jackie Alemany reporting charges against the former president are "far more serious" than any he has faced before, Dilanian chimed in, "Look it would be perfectly normal for lawyers of a defendant who has been notified with a target letter and liable to be indicted to go in and argue their best case."

"As Jackie says, Trump hasn't always wanted it to be that way but this is a different set of lawyers," he continued. "But at this point, the train has left the station. I can't imagine any argument the Trump team can make that in any way going to derail the process that is going to be unfolding here, again after hundreds of witnesses including witnesses who did not tell their full story or declined to tell their full story to the Jan. 6 House committee that was investigating this matter It's pretty clear at the Justice Department that something big is in the air."
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Trump lawyers told that former president will be indicted for Jan. 6: sources

Donald Trump's lawyers have been notified that the former president will be indicted in the Jan. 6 case.

His attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro met Thursday morning with special counsel Jack Smith's team as a federal grand jury met at a Washington, D.C., courthouse, and two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC News that federal prosecutors told them to expect him to be charged in the investigation of his efforts to overturn his election loss.

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Trump lawyers meet with Jack Smith's team as grand jury convenes in Jan. 6 case

Donald Trump's attorneys are meeting with special counsel Jack Smith's team Thursday ahead of a possible indictment in the Jan. 6 case, according to reports.

The federal grand jury investigating the former president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss arrived Thursday morning at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., and Trump's legal team arrived soon after at the special counsel's office for a meeting, tweeted ABC News reporter Katherine Faulders.

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Trump faces 'uniquely dangerous' test if he's indicted for Jan. 6: analysis

Former President Donald Trump is already facing two criminal indictments — a state one in Manhattan, for falsification of business records, and a federal one in Florida, for Espionage Act and obstruction offenses after stowing highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club.

And he is widely expected to be indicted with another round of federal charges in connection with special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the January 6 attack.

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