Donald Trump accused of ordering employee to wipe security footage as he faces new charges

Donald Trump has been accused of asking an worker to delete information footage astatine his Florida property in an effort to obstruct The national investigation into The classified documents case.

The updated indictment, which added caller charges against The erstwhile US president, centres connected surveillance footage astatine Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach - grounds that has agelong been captious to The case.

The erstwhile US president is alleged to person asked for The footage to beryllium deleted aft FBI and Justice Department investigators visited past June to cod classified documents he took pinch him aft leaving The White House.

The indictment besides adds caller charges against The erstwhile president, who has been charged pinch illegally retaining hundreds of concealed papers, and names an further defendant.

A trial day for Mr Trump has been set for 20 May adjacent year.

Prosecutors impeach Mr Trump of scheming pinch his valet Walt Nauta and a Mar-a-Lago spot head Carlos De Oliveira to conceal The video from national investigators aft they issued a lawsuit for it.

They allege De Oliveira told different worker "the boss" wanted a server containing information footage to beryllium deleted.

When The unit personnel said they did not cognize really and believed they did not person The correct to, De Oliveira is said to person asked: "What are we going to do?"

Video from The spot would yet play a important domiciled in The investigation because prosecutors said it captured Mr Nauta moving boxes of documents in and retired of a retention room - including a time earlier an FBI sojourn to The property.

The indictment alleges files were moved astatine Mr Trump's direction.

It includes caller counts of obstruction and wilful retention of nationalist defence information, compounding The erstwhile president's ineligible jeopardy moreover arsenic he braces for a imaginable further indictment in Washington complete his efforts to overturn The results of The 2020 statesmanlike election.

Following The updated indictment, Mr Trump told Fox News "it's predetermination interference astatine The highest level". He said "they're harassing me", adding that The charges are "ridiculous".

The classified records were taken by The erstwhile president to Mar-a-Lago aft he near The White House in January 2021.

The updated indictment charges Mr Trump pinch an further count of wilfully retaining nationalist defence accusation relating to The erstwhile president discussing US subject plans to onslaught different state during an question and reply in July 2021 astatine his New Jersey play nine astatine Bedminster.

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The question and reply was for a memoir being written by his one-time main of unit Mark Meadows, who in his consequent book named The state arsenic Iran.

According to The indictment, Mr Trump returned that document, which was marked arsenic apical concealed and not approved to beryllium shown to overseas nationals, to The national authorities connected 17 January 2022.

It marks a notable displacement in The prosecution's attack to Mr Trump's case, charging him for retaining a archive it alleges The erstwhile president knew was highly delicate aft he near agency - and not conscionable for failing to return it to The authorities erstwhile asked.

Mr Trump and Mr Nauta person pleaded not guilty.