Federal prosecutors on Thursday added main accusations to an indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with mishandling labeled paperwork after he left workplace, presenting proof that he advised the property supervisor of Mar-a-Lago, his non-public membership and residence in Florida, that he wished safety digital camera footage there to be deleted.

The new accusations have been revealed in a superseding indictment that named the property supervisor, Carlos De Oliveira, as a brand new defendant within the case. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Miami on Monday.

The authentic indictment filed final month within the Southern District of Florida accused Mr. Trump of violating the Espionage Act by illegally holding on to 31 labeled paperwork containing nationwide protection data after he left workplace. It additionally charged Mr. Trump and Walt Nauta, one among his private aides, with a conspiracy to hinder the federal government’s repeated makes an attempt to reclaim the labeled materials.

The revised indictment added three severe prices in opposition to Mr. Trump: making an attempt to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; inducing another person to take action; and a brand new depend below the Espionage Act associated to a labeled nationwide safety doc that he confirmed to guests at his golf membership in Bedminster, N.J.

The up to date indictment was launched on the identical day that Mr. Trump’s legal professionals met in Washington with prosecutors within the workplace of the particular counsel, Jack Smith, to debate a so-called goal letter that Mr. Trump obtained this month suggesting that he would possibly quickly face an indictment in a case associated to his efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. It served as a robust reminder that the paperwork investigation is ongoing, and will proceed to yield extra proof, new counts and even new defendants.

Prosecutors below Mr. Smith had been investigating Mr. De Oliveira for months, involved, amongst different issues, by his communications with an data know-how professional at Mar-a-Lago, Yuscil Taveras, who oversaw the surveillance digital camera footage on the property.

That footage was central to Mr. Smith’s investigation into whether or not Mr. Nauta, at Mr. Trump’s request, had moved bins out and in of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago to keep away from complying with a federal subpoena for all labeled paperwork within the former president’s possession. Many of these actions have been caught on the surveillance digital camera footage.

The revised indictment mentioned that in late June of final 12 months, shortly after the federal government demanded the surveillance footage as a part of its inquiry, Mr. Trump known as Mr. De Oliveira and so they spoke for twenty-four minutes.

Two days later, the indictment mentioned, Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira “went to the security guard booth where surveillance video is displayed on monitors, walked with a flashlight through the tunnel where the storage room was located, and observed and pointed out surveillance cameras.”

Just a few days after that, Mr. De Oliveira went to see Mr. Taveras, who’s recognized within the indictment as Trump Employee 4, and took him to a small room referred to as an “audio closet.” There, the indictment mentioned, the 2 males had a dialog that was meant to “remain between the two of them.”

It was then that Mr. De Oliveira advised Mr. Taveras that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” the indictment mentioned, referring to the pc server holding the safety footage.

Mr. Taveras objected and mentioned he didn’t know how you can delete the server and didn’t suppose he had the correct to take action, the indictment mentioned. At that time, the indictment mentioned, Mr. De Oliveira insisted once more that “the boss” wished the server deleted, asking, “What are we going to do?”

Two months later, after the F.B.I. descended on Mar-a-Lago with a search warrant and hauled away about 100 labeled paperwork, folks in Mr. Trump’s orbit seemed to be involved about Mr. De Oliveira’s loyalties.

“Someone just wants to make sure Carlos is good,” the indictment quoted Mr. Nauta as saying to a different Trump worker.

In response, the indictment mentioned, that worker advised Mr. Nauta that Mr. De Oliveira was “loyal” and “would not do anything to affect his relationship with Mr. Trump.” After the dialog, Mr. Trump — who throughout his 2016 presidential marketing campaign usually assailed his opponent, Hillary Clinton, for deleting materials from her electronic mail server — known as Mr. De Oliveira and mentioned that he would get him a lawyer.

The revised indictment additionally prices Mr. De Oliveira with mendacity to federal investigators. It recounts an alternate by which he repeatedly denied seeing or understanding something about bins of paperwork at Mar-a-Lago, regardless that, the indictment mentioned, he had personally noticed and helped transfer them after they arrived.

Mr. De Oliveira’s lawyer, John Irving, declined to remark.

An announcement attributed solely to the Trump marketing campaign known as the brand new accusations a “desperate and flailing attempt” by the Justice Department to undercut Mr. Trump, the present front-runner for the Republican nomination to tackle President Biden subsequent 12 months.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta have each pleaded not responsible to the fees within the authentic indictment. Their case has been scheduled to go to trial in May.

The new prices lay out intimately efforts by Mr. Nauta to talk with Mr. De Oliveira in regards to the safety digital camera footage and to find out how lengthy the footage was saved after the federal government sought to acquire it below a subpoena.

The indictment accommodates a further cost associated to a labeled doc — a battle plan associated to attacking Iran — that Mr. Trump confirmed, throughout a gathering at his Bedminster golf membership, to 2 folks serving to his former White House chief of workers Mark Meadows write a e book.

The up to date indictment gives particular dates throughout which Mr. Trump was in possession of the doc — from Jan. 20, 2021, the day he left workplace, by means of Jan. 17, 2022, the date Mr. Trump turned over 15 bins of presidential materials to the National Archives. The specificity of the dates signifies that prosecutors have the doc in query and the indictment describes it as a “presentation concerning military activity in a foreign country,” including it was marked high secret.

The assembly at which Mr. Trump confirmed off the doc was captured in an audio recording and Mr. Trump may be heard rustling paper and describing the doc as “secret” and “sensitive.”

Still, he has tried to recommend that he by no means had a doc in his hand and was merely blustering.

“There was no document,” Mr. Trump claimed to the Fox News host Bret Baier in a latest interview. “That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document per se. There was nothing to declassify.”

The authentic indictment filed by Mr. Smith and his crew in June took place two months after native prosecutors in New York filed greater than 30 felony prices in opposition to Mr. Trump in a case related to a hush cash fee made to a porn star upfront of the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump stays below investigation by Mr. Smith’s workplace over his wide-ranging efforts to retain energy after his election loss in 2020, and the way these efforts led to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He can also be being scrutinized for attainable election interference by the district lawyer’s workplace in Fulton County, Ga.

Chris Cameron and Charlie Savage contributed reporting.