Criminal charges added to Washed Up 45. |
Washed Up 45 got more charges thrown on him. Two other men face criminal charges as well. The Special Counsel working this has added additional criminal charges in the classified documents scandal.
The federal indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Washed Up 45 was part of a scheme to delete security video and that a newly charged defendant — who was identified as a property manager at the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence — told another employee that "the boss" wanted the server deleted.
That employee, Carlos De Oliveira, who was a maintenance supervisor at Mar-a-Lago, was charged Thursday. His lawyer, John Irving, declined to comment.
Court documents say De Oliveira denied that he was involved in moving boxes. "Never saw anything," he told the FBI, according to documents. "Never saw anything," he repeated.
The indictment lays out what federal authorities say was a scheme to obstruct the ongoing investigation. Washed Up 45 was very focused on not allowing officials to get their hands on his boxes, it indicates.
“I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t,” The former president told his lawyer in May 2022, according to the indictment. “What happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them? Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?”
Washed Up 45's lawyer said the former president later made a "plucking motion" to suggest that he should take anything that was "really bad" out. Afterward, prosecutors suggest, Washed Up 45 was involved in an effort to delete security camera video that would show how his employees had moved boxes of documents before the FBI search.
The superseding indictment claims that Walt Nauta and De Oliveira met up at a security guard booth where security video was displayed on monitors and that De Oliveira later stepped into an audio closet with another employee and had a conversation that De Oliveira said should be kept between them.
De Oliveira asked the employee how long the server retained video, and the other employee indicated it was about 45 days, according to the indictment. De Oliveira said that "the boss" wanted the server deleted, but the employee responded that he did not believe he would have the right to do that and would need to speak with the supervisor of security, the indictment says.
De Oliveira reiterated that "the boss" wanted it done and asked, "what are we going to do?" according to the indictment.
That conversation took place in late June 2022, just a few weeks before the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, the indictment says. After the search, it alleges, Nauta called another Washed Up 45 employee and asked about De Oliveira. The unnamed Washed Up 45 employee told Nauta that De Oliveira was loyal and would not do anything to affect his relationship with the former president, according to the indictment.
Nauta later wrote in a Signal chat with the representative of a Washed Up 45 PAC that De Oliveira was loyal, and the former president later called De Oliveira and told the maintenance worker that the former president would get him a lawyer, the indictment says.
Washed Up 45 blasted the Department of Justice in an interview with Fox News after the indictment was announced, calling the charges "ridiculous" and accusing the department of "prosecutorial misconduct."
“It’s election interference at the highest level,” said Washed Up 45, who leads the GOP field in polls on the 2024 presidential race. “They’re harassing my company, they’re harassing my family and by far, least importantly of all, they’re harassing me.”
The former president and Nauta have pleaded not guilty, and a trial has been set for May.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), by far the worst lawmaker in modern history is hinting an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. He is basing this on unfounded claims in regards to the president's troubled son Hunter Biden. It is the distraction that Republicans are willing to use to ignore the former president's legal problems.
McCarthy rather America moves on from Jan. 6. The attack on the U.S. Capitol was horrific and deadly. The former president whipped up his supporters on baseless claims that the election was stolen. They went to the Capitol to hunt down former Vice President Mike Pence and then House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
He rather have Americans focused on a private citizen and a baseless claim his father took bribes from shady Ukrainians. The Republicans are hell bent on impeaching Biden, they ignored their commitment to focusing on the economy.
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