Indictments against former President Donald J. Trump and a personal aide, Walt Nauta, unsealed Friday reveal a host of embarrassing and potentially devastating new details about a yearlong investigation previously cloaked in secrecy.
and grand jury.
Here are some of the most significant, and startling, allegations:Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta are accused of conspiring to obstruct justice.
Prosecutors say they have assembled evidence showing that Mr. Trump willfully ignored a May 2022 subpoena requiring him to return everything belonging to the National Archives — and took extraordinary steps to obstruct the F.B.I.
In the hours before Mr. Trump’s lawyer visited his Mar-a-Lago estate to search for documents in a storage room — an attempt to comply with the subpoena — Mr. Trump directed Mr. Nauta, his co-defendant, to move 64 of the boxes out of the storage room because he maintained they were his property.
Persons:
Donald J, Trump, Walt Nauta, Nauta, National Archives —, Trump’s
Organizations:
White, Prosecutors, National Archives