Prosecutors seek Jan. 2 trial date for Trump in 2020 election conspiracy trial
PBS NewsHourAug 02, 2023
The Facts
On Thursday, former Pres. Donald Trump and Walt Nauta, his longtime aide, pleaded not guilty to additional charges in the case over Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents that were taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago, appeared in federal court, where they faced updated charges of conspiring to delete surveillance video sought by investigators.
The Spin
Democratic narrative
The list of Trump's indictments keeps growing, and it seems more and more likely he’ll be spending the winter and spring in court. He can deny these charges all he wants, but it seems that his aides were acting on his orders to destroy evidence to keep investigators from retrieving the documents they requested several times. With this many indictments, it's only a matter of time before he's found guilty.
Pro-Trump narrative
The immense number of indictments is an indication of how weaponized the Justice Department under Biden has become and how intensely it wants to achieve its goal of derailing the leader for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Eventually, however, the truth will prevail and the former president will be proven innocent.
