Latest Trump Indictment Nearly Ensures Conviction
“I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t,” Trump told his lawyer in May 2022, according to a superseding indictment that was filed by federal prosecutors yesterday. “What happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them? Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?”
Trump’s lawyer then told authorities that the former president made a "plucking motion" to suggest that he should take out anything that was "really bad." Prosecutors now claim, after that, Trump was involved in an effort to delete security camera video that would show how his employees had moved boxes of documents before the impending FBI search in order to obfuscate the evidence.
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