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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
While there is still much that is not known about the Biden documents, there are key differences between the two cases — as well as some similarities. Court papers show officials found classified documents in 14 of the 15 boxes, including 25 that were marked top secret. Justice Department investigationIn both cases, the Archives reported the discovery of classified documents to the Department of Justice. The FBI then learned Trump had not fully complied with the subpoena and still had more classified documents. McQuade posted on Twitter that the Justice Department prosecutes the mishandling of classified documents when there is an aggravating factor present.
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