Trump had returned that document to the government on Jan. Details about that document and the meeting were included in the original indictment, but none of the charges had related to it until now. Investigators say Trump showed off that document during July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort with the writer and publisher of the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The new charges against Trump include an additional count of willfully retaining national defense information related to a presentation about military activity in another country. Once Trump’s fixer, Cohen has likened Trump to a mob boss, who would bully others into doing his bidding but would speak in “code” and never directly tell them to do something wrong.Ĭohen, who served time in prison in another special counsel's investigation, testified as a key prosecution witness in the unrelated New York hush-money case against Trump.Īn attorney for De Oliveira declined to comment Thursday.
The coded language and talk about needing to carry out the boss' wishes is reminiscent of how others, including former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, have described life inside Trump's inner circle. When the employee said he didn’t believe he was able to do that, De Oliveira insisted the “boss” wanted it done, asking, “What are we going to do?" De Oliveira asked the employee how many days the server retained surveillance footage and said “the boss” wanted the server deleted. The indictment says that in late June 2022, De Oliveira took another employee to a small room known as an “audio closet" and told the other employee the conversation should remain between the two of them. The new indictment alleges that Trump demanded that security footage at his Mar-a-Lago estate be deleted after investigators visited in June 2022 to collect classified documents he took with him after the left the White House.
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