New charges against Donald Trump and two associates in the classified documents case significantly deepened the expresidents legal plight and dragged the election further into an unprecedented legal quagmire . Special counsel Jack Smith alleged following his initial charges in the case that Trump requested the deletion of security footage at his MaraLago resort to prevent it from being provided to a grand jury . If Smiths new counts are proven they will create a historic scenario that represents yet another challenge to the countrys constitutional order from its former commander in chief who is currently the frontrunner for the GOP nomination . Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has already pleaded not guilty to the earlier counts . Trump responds with a new political assault the expresident whose legal strategy has become enmeshed with his campaign strategy poured fuel on the political fire . The expresident also claimed he was being targeted because he was easily leading in polls of the Republican primary and the general election but his latter claim about a hypothetical matchup with Biden is not true. The sudden new charges will almost certainly cause delays in the trial to go to trial next May . Such postponement could thrust the process of the case even further into a further postponement of the investigation could thrust it into even deeper into the supercharged election season . The case was braced even more surprising even more surprises . Trump and allies are also waiting to see whether his allies are waiting to be indictments in a separate case being indicted for possible indictments for a separate indictment in a different case in the middle of the mid-winter of their own case to go in March. The expresident of the indictment. The president is also being indicted. The case is due to go back to the midterms. It is also braced for an indictment in the mid
Stunning new Trump charges up the stakes of an already existential 2024 election . Stunning
