#Trump & aide #Nauta #plead not guilty in #ClassifiedDocuments case. #DeOliveira does not enter #plea (#delay tactic)
Trump & 1 of his 2 co-defendants on Thurs pleaded not guilty in #federal #court to mult #charges alleging TFG kept classified docs at his FL property &, w/the help of aides, tried to hide some of the material from gov ofcls seeking to get them back.
#NationalSecurity #Obstruction #Espionage #law #legal #DOJ #JackSmith
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/10/trump-aide-carlos-de-oliveira-arraignment/
Trump entered his plea thru his attys & was not present at the #hearing. Federal prosecutors had initially accused him of committing 37 #crimes in an #indictment filed in June & he pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors added 3 more charges in a July #SupersedingIndictment. #Trump pleaded not guilty to those #charges …on Thurs.
Waltine #Nauta… also pleaded not guilty. He faced 6 #charges in the initial #indictment alongside #Trump & was charged w/ 2 additional #crimes in the #SupersedingIndictment.
The 3rd #defendant, #DeOliveira, property mgr at #MarALago, was charged for the 1st time in the #SupersedingIndictment. He was to enter his plea Thurs to 4 counts for his alleged role in a scheme w/ #Trump & #Nauta to delete #SecurityFootage revealing MAL workers moving boxes of govt materials that feds had already demanded be returned.
#DeOliveira was not #arraigned bc a FL-based atty had not yet notified the court they are representing De Oliveira — a req for #arraignments in So FL fed courts.