Second Trump aide warned of charges in classified documents probe
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening from New York. I'm Chris A. As we've got new evidence tonight, the special |
| 0:08.9 | council prosecuting Trump for his willful retention of classified materials is not done |
| 0:13.9 | with his investigation. It's notable because it's been more than a month since Donald Trump |
| 0:18.6 | was quite infamously arrested and reigned inside of Miami Federal Courthouse. And while |
| 0:23.8 | Trump and his valet co-defendant face a 38-count indictment, multiple outlets reporting |
| 0:28.8 | today, the prosecutors are threatening new charges against another Trump employee in their |
| 0:34.9 | investigation into potential efforts to obstruct their probe. ABC News reports, quote, |
| 0:39.8 | special counsel Jack Smith, in recent weeks transmitted a target letter to the staffer, indicating |
| 0:45.2 | that he might have purged himself during a May appearance before the federal grand jury |
| 0:49.5 | hearing evidence in the classified documents probe. The target letter to the employee, |
| 0:54.2 | Donald Smith's growing interest in the Trump's organization's handling of the surveillance |
| 0:58.8 | footage and potential efforts to avoid sharing it with investigators. |
| 1:03.7 | ABC News is not independently verified this reporting. And I should note here, a target |
| 1:08.2 | letter does not mean that you've been charged with a crime or that necessarily well. Instead, |
| 1:13.1 | it lets the subject investigation know they are a target. They are facing the possibility |
| 1:17.1 | of an indictment. ABC reached out to the employee to ask about the report in target letter. |
| 1:22.0 | He told them, quote, it's none of your business, which will maybe be the case if until he's |
| 1:28.4 | ever charged. New York Times reported in May that Jack Smith's team was zeroing in on |
| 1:33.5 | whether Trump and some of his aides sought to interfere with prosecutors' attempts to |
| 1:37.6 | attain that security camera footage from Mar-a-Lago. This employee reportedly gave testimony |
| 1:43.3 | regarding the Mar-a-Lago surveillance tapes and conversations with other Trump employees |
| 1:47.2 | about handing it over to prosecutors. Remember, the reason that we're here, right, is |
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