Trump pleads not guilty to new charges in secret documents case

Former US President donald trump He pleaded not guilty this Friday to the new charges filed against him for alleged mismanagement of top-secret government documents.

Trump, 77 and the favorite candidate among the Republicans for the 2024 presidential elections, was charged last week with three additional crimes in that case led by the special counsel jack smith.

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The former president sent a note this Friday to the federal court of florida leading the process to plead not guilty.

In that document, Trump he also waived his right to be present at the reading of those new charges on August 10.

The tycoon’s statement came a day after he pleaded not guilty, in a federal court in Washington, to conspiring to alter the results of the 2020 elections, lost to the Democrat Joe Biden.

The former president is scheduled to go to trial in Florida in May 2024 for allegedly taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence and refusing to return them.

In June, he pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements.

Additional charges filed against Trump last week relate to his alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI’s investigation, which was trying to recover the classified material.

In the latest indictment in this case, Trump He is accused of trying to delete the recordings from the Mar-a-Lago security cameras to prevent the authorities from getting hold of them.

The Prosecutor’s Office accused two other people in this case: Waltine “Walt” Nauta, personal assistant of Trump for many years, and Carlos De Oliveira, property manager for Mar-a-Lago.

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Source: Elcomercio

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