Trump now faces two new counts of obstruction of justice over his attempts to erase security footage at Mar-a-Lago, as well as a new Espionage Act violation over his alleged possession of an Iran war plan that he waved around during an interview.
And with this new evidence, that Trump directed assistants to wipe a computer server that would show security footage at his South Florida club—evidence that Trump not only knew he was doing something wrong, but also that he tried to conceal the whole affair—Smith may have the smoking gun.
The idea that Trump hatched a plan to destroy evidence dramatically increases the seriousness of the case against him, threatening to amplify his infamy in the history books. And if proven at trial next year, it could very well derail his ambitions to return to the White House in 2025. But the parallels don’t stop there. Presidential scholars noted that Nixon was eventually undone by his role directing underlings to commit additional crimes to hide previous ones. As time went on, investigators began to squeeze out information from the burglars who broke into the Watergate Office Building that then served as the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
Nixon’s decision to cover up evidence of his crimes seems to have been prompted by his fear that John W. Dean III, a White House lawyer who had started talking to Watergate prosecutors, would lay out a roadmap that led straight to the top.that Nixon had suggested they ought to “get rid” of Oval Office recordings in April 1973, months before the public ever heard that they even existed.
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