Federal prosecutors unsealed the new indictment targeting the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, who is set to go on trial as the election heats up in May of next year.
Trump kept the files -- which included records from the Pentagon, CIA and National Security Agency -- unsecured at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and thwarted official efforts to retrieve them, according to the indictment. The new indictment recounts a conversation between de Oliveira and a fourth, unnamed employee in which de Oliveira says"the boss" wants the server deleted.
"It's election interference at the highest level," he said, blaming his potential campaign opponent President Joe Biden and the Justice Department for "prosecutorial misconduct." Trump had said his team was not told when any indictment over that case, centered on the 2021 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters, would be issued.