Donald Trump faces new charges for obstruction of justice

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The DOJ charges Trump with new counts in the documents case. Also, two Trump employees had a discussion about deleting security footage at Mar-A-Lago after a subpoena was issued. Plus, Ukraine begins the main thrust of their counterdefensive against Russia. Andrew Weissmann, Timothy Heaphy, and Tim Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Laurence O'Donnell, good evening, Laurence.
0:03.2	Good evening Alex, we have Andrew Weissman joining us tonight and he has been the hardest
0:07.6	working man at this network today and so I want to get to him as quickly as I can.
0:13.3	As you should, as you should, go forth, go forth, Laurence.
0:16.7	Thank you.
0:17.7	Well, we now know who the star witness is going to be in the case of United States of America
0:24.9	versus Donald J. Trump, Walteen Nauta, and now Carlos de Oliveira.
0:32.7	Colors de Oliveira was added as a defendant in the case today in a superseding indictment
0:38.3	which added nine new criminal charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual
0:44.0	defendants, some apply to all of them.
0:46.4	They are all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed
0:51.7	by Donald Trump.
0:53.6	The new defendant, Carlos de Oliveira, is a Trump employee working in maintenance at Donald
0:59.8	Trump's Florida residence.
1:01.9	The three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit
1:07.2	a fourth person to the conspiracy.
1:11.4	They failed and because they failed, we now know what really happened in Donald Trump's criminal
1:19.1	conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents.
1:26.0	On page 38 of today's superseding indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy is described.
1:31.8	Quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was for Trump to keep classified documents he had
1:37.7	taken with him from the White House and to hide and conceal them from a federal grand jury.
1:46.9	Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira are now charged with participating
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