"Never Saw Nothing" Dirty Moderate-SDSM Bonus Episode-116

Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

Say hello to Carlos De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s property manager, who allegedly assisted Trump aide Walt Nauta, in attempting to delete security footage that showed the men moving boxes of classified documents around the property to hide them from federal agents.

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed three new criminal counts against Trump on Thursday bringing the total to 40. The superseding indictment charged De Oliveira with conspiracy to obstruct justice, accusing him of helping Trump to hide documents.

De Oliveira told a fellow Mar-a-Lago employee, that "the boss" wanted security videos of the property in Florida deleted after the Justice Department subpoenaed them.

Prosecutors also charged De Oliveira with lying to the FBI during a voluntary interview, falsely claiming he had no involvement in moving boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

"Never saw nothing," De Oliveira told the agents, according to the indictment.

The superseding indictment against Trump also includes a a new count of willfully retaining national defense information. The charge alleges that Trump showed a top secret military document about Iran to other people who, like him, lacked the security clearance required to see such material. Trump himself admitted the documents were not declassified.

That old adage is true : It’s not the lie, it’s the coverup.

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