Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors has piled additional charges into former President Donald Trump’s indictment – and another Trump aide has been charged in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

They place the former president in still more legal jeopardy as he is already bracing for potential charges in another key case while fighting a multi-front legal war. 

Among the new charges is that the former president allegedly told aides to ‘wipe’ security footage from his Florida club’s server as a way to foil investigators probing the removal of classified documents from the White House.

Carlos De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s head of maintenance, has been named as the third defendant alongside the former president and his valet Walt Nauta.

Both developments present additional legal jeopardy for the former president, who spent part of Thursday averring that his lawyers had blasted the case against him in still another case, related to his election overturn effort. 

Prosecutors are piling more charges on Trump in the new indictment. They are additional charges related to obstruction of justice and willful retention of national defense information. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team added them to the existing indictment Thursday evening. 

Trump was hit with a 37-count indictment in June. 

According to one passage in the superseding indictment filed Thursday, De Oliveira ‘told Trump Employee 4 that their conversation should remain between the two of them.’

De Oliveira ‘asked Trump employee 4 how many days the server retrained footage. Trump Employee 4 responded that he believed it was approximately 45 days.’ 

It continued: ‘De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that “the boss” wanted the server deleted.” 

That language, if substantiated, appears to put Trump at the heart of the alleged conspiracy to cover up information.

The indictment states that De Oliveira stated he didn’t know how to wipe the story or that he would have a right to. 

The news came on a day former President Donald Trump's lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors

The news came on a day former President Donald Trump's lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors

The news came on a day former President Donald Trump’s lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors 

De Oliveira is believed to have helped Nauta helped move boxes of sensitive files around the private club after the Department of Justice subpoenaed Trump.

Nauta continues to work for Trump, and is facing charges of conspiring to withhold classified information from the government. He pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami earlier this month.

The specific charges against DecOliveira were not immediately clear. 

The news came on a day former President Donald Trump’s lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors to discuss the January 6 case, according to Trump.

The developments in the Mar-a-Lago case came on a day when a separate January 6 investigation has been advancing

The developments in the Mar-a-Lago case came on a day when a separate January 6 investigation has been advancing

The developments in the Mar-a-Lago case came on a day when a separate January 6 investigation has been advancing

Walt Nauta, a valet to former President Donald Trump, has already been charged with conspiracy

Walt Nauta, a valet to former President Donald Trump, has already been charged with conspiracy

Walt Nauta, a valet to former President Donald Trump, has already been charged with conspiracy

Trump has long called all the probes of him part of a ‘witch hunt,’ and has repeatedly trained his fire on the Biden family, who he calls ‘corrupt.’ 

Nauta had been considered a witness that prosecutors might try to ‘flip’ to gain testimony against Trump, and he met with investigators during their probe. But instead the former White House valet has remained in Trump’s employ, and prosecutors charged the former valet.

Now the inclusion of De Oliveira presents an additional candidate for pressure, although as in the case of Nauta, prosecutors may have decided they can make their case without him. 

The stunning news came on a day when eyes have been on the January 6 case, where Trump has received a target letter from prosecutors related to that case, in Washington, D.C. 

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