Trump Ordered Security Footage Deleted, DOJ Alleges In New Charges
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Trump also faces a new count of willful retention of National Defense Information related to his handling of classified documents, apparently in connection with a top-secret presentation Trump allegedly waved at aides at his Bedminster, N.J., resort.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Lauren in Oklahoma City, headed out for my 5 a.m. morning run because it's already 83 degrees outside. |
| 0:08.0 | This podcast was recorded at 11.25 a.m. on Friday, July 28th. |
| 0:14.0 | Things may have changed but this time you hear it and hopefully our high will be under 100 degrees soon. |
| 0:20.0 | Alright, here's the show. |
| 0:25.0 | Credit to you for still getting up that early and getting the run in. |
| 0:28.0 | It's hot. It's hot everywhere. I was in Texas. It wasn't below 104 for a lot of it. |
| 0:33.0 | And now it's going to be 100 degrees in DC. |
| 0:36.0 | No, thank you. |
| 0:38.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Domenico Montenar, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. |
| 0:48.0 | And there are new charges against former President Trump connected to withholding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office. |
| 0:57.0 | Now Trump, his aide Walt Naughta and an additional employee are also being charged in connection with the plan to delete security footage. |
| 1:06.0 | Carrie, catch us up to speed. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, sure. So while a bunch of us were sitting in the federal courthouse in DC waiting for something to happen with respect to the January 6th grand jury. |
| 1:15.0 | Instead, the activity was happening in South Florida again. |
| 1:19.0 | Donald Trump has now been charged with a total of 40 federal criminal offenses in South Florida in connection with the hoarding alleged hoarding of documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort. |
| 1:30.0 | And there are two elements to this superseding indictment, two new facets here. |
| 1:36.0 | The first is that Trump has been charged with another count of willful retention of information related to the national defense. |
| 1:43.0 | This seems to be about a military presentation regarding Iran that Trump was allegedly waving around to AIDS at Bedminster, his new Jersey golf club that was mentioned in the earlier indictment. |
| 1:55.0 | And the prosecution says they now have these papers. And the reason why this is important is because they also have an audio tape of someone at that meeting of Trump allegedly saying, you know, this is a secret. |
| 2:06.0 | And I could have declassified it when I was president, but I didn't. And so it's still a secret. And it could be powerful evidence of his state of mind, really. |
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