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On Thursday evening, a new federal indictment against Donald Trump finally arrived—but it was not the indictment anyone had been expecting. Rather than charges related to the election case being heard in Washington, D.C., this was a new superseding indictment from the grand jury in West Palm Beach that had previously issued 38 felony indictments related to illegal retention of classified documents.
The new indictment adds both new charges and a new defendant to the case. It also increases the number of charges directly against Trump to an even 40. But the most important feature of this superseding indictment is that it details efforts in which Trump conspired to cover his tracks by ordering his staff to delete security camera footage of the area where classified documents had been stored.
It doesn’t only show that Trump destroyed evidence. It shows that he was engaged in wrongdoing, and he knew it.
