Classified documents

What to know about the classified documents case

From CNN staff

Donald Trump was indicted in June 2023 by a federal grand jury in Miami, accused of taking classified national defense documents from the White House after he left office and resisting the government’s attempts to retrieve the materials.

Both Trump and his aide Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty.

On July 27, 2023, the special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with three new counts, including one additional count of willful retention of national defense information. Nauta was also charged on two new counts. A third defendant, Carlos de Oliveira, was added to the case and charged with four counts, including being added to the obstruction conspiracy charged in the original indictment.

The key evidence in the case included:

• Recording of Trump discussing holding secret documents he did not declassify
• About 100 classified documents found in a FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August
• Surveillance footage turned over to the Justice Department that allegedly shows Nauta and De Oliveira moving document boxes around the resort