Trump co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira pleads not guilty in classified docs case

Carlos De Oliveira, the newest co-defendant successful the national transgression case implicit erstwhile President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, yet entered a not-guilty plea connected Tuesday aft failing to bash truthful twice before.

De Oliveira pleaded not blameworthy to 4 transgression counts related to an alleged effort to delete surveillance footage from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.

De Oliveira, a spot manager astatine Trump's Palm Beach resort, was added to the lawsuit successful a superseding indictment filed precocious past month.

The arraignment took spot successful U.S. District Court successful Fort Pierce, Florida, earlier a national magistrate judge. It had been delayed connected 2 anterior occasions owed to issues securing section counsel.

"Good luck," Magistrate Judge Shaniek Maynard told De Oliveira successful a little proceeding that began astatine 10 a.m. ET.

The superseding indictment besides charged Trump with 3 caller counts connected apical of the 37 helium already faces successful the case, which halfway connected his retention of classified records aft leaving the White House successful 2021.

Walt Nauta, Trump's valet and co-defendant successful the archetypal indictment filed by peculiar counsel Jack Smith, besides received further charges successful the superseding indictment.

Nauta and De Oliveira had some appeared successful tribunal past week to participate pleas connected the latest batch of charges. Nauta successfully pleaded not blameworthy successful that hearing, but De Oliveira's arraignment was postponed until Tuesday greeting due to the fact that his section attorney, Larry Murrell, had not presented each the indispensable tribunal filings successful the case.

Trump had already pleaded not blameworthy to the caller charges and waived his quality successful past week's hearing.

The caller counts complaint each 3 defendants with plotting to delete information footage that had been subpoenaed by a national expansive assemblage successful June 2022, according to the indictment. Trump besides received a caller number of retaining a classified document, which helium had allegedly shown to aggregate radical without information clearances astatine his New Jersey play nine aft helium was nary longer president. News outlets person published an audio tape of that meeting.

Trump's charges successful Florida are 1 of 4 progressive transgression cases against him arsenic helium seeks the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination. He was astir precocious indicted Monday nighttime successful Georgia, connected charges related to his efforts to overturn his nonaccomplishment to President Joe Biden successful the state's 2020 election.