Former president Donald Trump gets to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington,Va on Thursday, August 3, 2023 after appearing at E. Barrett Prettyman United States CourtHouse
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday pleaded innocent and waived his individual look for an arraignment on a superseding indictment in his classified files criminal case in Florida.
Trump entered his plea and waiver in a filing in federal court, where the brand-new indictment provided July 27 included charges for a supposed effort to ruin monitoring video of efforts to conceal numerous classified federal government records he kept at his Mar- a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
Trump was charged in the initial indictment with maintaining those records after leaving the White House and conspiring to avoid their go back to U.S. authorities. Those counts stay in impact.
Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta, a co-defendant in the event, was because of be arraigned on the brand-new charges on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Nauta up until now has actually not sent a court filing getting in a plea, nor has actually waived his right to appear face to face on the superseding indictment, which implicates him and a 3rd offender, Mar- a-Lago upkeep employee Carlos De Oliveira, of conspiracy in the effort to erase the monitoring video footage.
Because Trump and Nauta formerly were arraigned face to face on the initial indictment, they can waive appearing personally for arraignment on the superseding charging file.
Trump on Thursday pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Washington, D.C., federal court in a different case where he is charged with 4 felonies associated to his effort to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 election.
