DOJ Drops Stolen Docs Case Against Trump Employees

CNN reports:

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.The Justice Department has stopped pursuing an appeal brought by Smith to revive the criminal charges against Trump’s employees. The appeal had also sought to defend the attorney general’s ability to appoint special prosecutors — a long-held authority that Trump’s administration has sought to undermine.

Walt Nauta was accused by Smith of assisting the then-former president in his alleged efforts to hide boxes of classified documents from a Trump attorney who was collecting them for a grand jury subpoena and of making false statements to investigators probing the documents’ whereabouts. The charges brought by Smith against Carlos De Oliveira accused the former Mar-a-Lago employee of working alongside Trump and Nauta to obstruct the investigation by attempting to delete security footage.

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