的高级顾问之一唐纳德·特朗普的知情人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，特别顾问杰克·史密斯在对前总统的起诉书中确认了2024竞选活动，但没有指名道姓，因为他涉嫌在离开白宫后错误处理机密文件，并阻挠政府检索这些文件。
苏西·怀尔斯(Susie Wiles)是特朗普最信任的顾问之一，领导着他的第二次连任努力史密斯的起诉书消息人士称，作为特朗普据称在2021年8月或9月向其展示机密地图的“政治行动委员会代表”。
特朗普在起诉书中被指控在讨论特朗普称“进展不顺利”的军事行动时，向怀尔斯展示了一个未知国家的机密地图，同时补充说，他“不应该”向她展示地图，“不要靠得太近”。
“杰克·史密斯和特别顾问的调查是通过攻击特朗普总统连任竞选的领导人之一，公开进行彻底的选举干预和干涉，”特朗普竞选发言人告诉美国广播公司新闻。“乔·拜登和他的武器化DOJ进行的虚假调查显然旨在造成最大程度的政治损害，并阻止川普总统...夺回白宫。”
特别检察官办公室的发言人拒绝置评。司法部和白宫都否认对特别顾问的调查有任何政治干预。
特朗普和怀尔斯之间所谓的交流是检察官在起诉书中详述的两起案件中的第二起，这两起案件显示特朗普据称在离开白宫后如何在私人会议上披露机密信息。第一个是2021年7月的录音，由ABC新闻获得本周早些时候，特朗普向人们展示了他所说的与伊朗有关的“秘密”和“高度机密”文件。
据消息人士透露，美国广播公司新闻报道，此次会议涉及帮助特朗普前幕僚长马克·梅多斯撰写回忆录的人。据消息人士透露，史密斯的团队已经与会议的与会者进行了交谈，其中包括帮助梅多斯写书的作家和特朗普的至少两名助手。
在这张2022年8月8日的档案照片中，展示了游说者和经验丰富的共和党战略家苏西·怀尔斯(Susie Wiles)，他曾成功地运作了唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在2016年佛罗里达州的努力。
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根据会议的录音，特朗普一再否认有不当行为，并继续声称他没有炫耀机密文件，正如他在会议期间似乎正在做的那样。
“我要说这是虚张声势，”特朗普说周二告诉ABC新闻关于他在录音中的对话。“如果你想知道真相，那是虚张声势。我只是举着文件谈论，但我没有文件。我没有任何文件。”
根据起诉书，特朗普似乎没有因为保留伊朗文件或向被认定为怀尔斯的人展示的机密地图而受到特别指控。消息人士称，这两起事件反映了史密斯的检察官眼中特朗普在离开白宫后如何处理有时分享他所拥有的机密材料的精神状态，以及他涉嫌颠覆政府夺回文件的努力。
如果消息人士对怀尔斯的指认是准确的，这也增加了这样一种可能性，即如果特朗普的案件在2024年大选前接受审判，领导他连任竞选的顶级人物之一可能会被传唤作为关键证人作证。怀尔斯此前曾帮助领导特朗普现已成为共和党初选对手的罗恩·德桑蒂斯的两次州长竞选，被视为特朗普最信任的知己之一。
她还在2016年领导了特朗普在佛罗里达州的竞选活动，后来担任特朗普拯救美国政治行动委员会的首席执行官。
虽然特朗普尚未任命2024年的竞选经理，但怀尔斯、克里斯·拉西维塔(Chris LaCivita)和布莱恩·杰克(Brian Jack)是指导竞选活动的团队。包括所有支出、筹款和基础设施。
消息人士还进一步确认了史密斯团队在起诉书中提到的一些其他人物。据说海莉·哈里森和莫莉·迈克尔分别是“特朗普员工1”和“特朗普员工2”。起诉书详细描述了他们来回发送的短信，内容是将特朗普的箱子搬出商业中心，作为他的Mar-a-Lago庄园，为员工创造工作空间。
迈克尔的名字此前被报道为起诉书中确定的个人，他是特朗普的前行政助理，不再为他工作，而哈里森目前是特朗普妻子梅兰妮·特朗普的助手。
“浴室里还有一个小房间，可以放他的其他东西。他只关心他的论文吗?”根据起诉书，被消息人士称为哈里森的特朗普雇员1写了被消息人士称为迈克尔的特朗普雇员2。“里面还有一些不是文件的东西。那能去储藏室吗?或者他想把所有的东西都放在这里。”
根据起诉书，特朗普的长期助手沃尔特·诺塔(Walt Nauta)和特朗普的第二名员工迈克尔(Michael)在2021年11月至2022年1月之间交换了短信，内容是将箱子从储藏室带到特朗普的住所，以便他可以亲自查看里面的东西。在2021年12月的一个例子中，Nauta给特朗普的员工2发短信，说发现特朗普的几个箱子掉在地上，里面的东西洒了出来，并给她发了一张照片，照片中有一份带有可见分类标记的文件。
诺塔是与特朗普并肩作战本月早些时候被控串谋妨碍司法公正和作虚假陈述。
根据起诉书，Nauta和特朗普雇员2(消息人士称其为迈克尔)就特朗普审查箱子的状态来回交换了信息，2021年12月29日，特朗普雇员2给“特朗普代表1”发短信，消息人士称该代表是特朗普的前律师亚历克斯·坎农(Alex Cannon)，向他提供最新情况。Cannon与国家档案馆保持联系，并负责在2022年1月协助将15个箱子从Mar-a-Lago运回国家档案馆。
消息来源在起诉书中提到的个人没有一个被指控有任何不当行为。
该案件的下一次听证会定于7月中旬举行，以解决审判中机密材料的处理问题。
特朗普，本月早些时候不服罪对于史密斯起诉书中列出的所有指控，他驳回了特别顾问的调查，认为这是出于政治动机的政治迫害。
Top Trump campaign aide identified as key individual in classified docs indictmen
One of the top advisers onDonald Trump's2024 campaign is among the individuals identified but not named by special counsel Jack Smith in his indictment against the former president for allegedly mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Susie Wiles, one of Trump's most trusted advisers leading his second reelection effort, is the individual singled out inSmith's indictmentas the "PAC Representative" who Trump is alleged to have shown a classified map to in August or September of 2021, sources said.
Trump, in the indictment, is alleged to have shown the classified map of an unidentified country to Wiles while discussing a military operation that Trump said "was not going well," while adding that he "should not be showing the map" to her and "not to get too close."
"Jack Smith and the Special Counsel’s investigation is openly engaging in outright election interference and meddling by attacking one of the leaders of President Trump’s re-election campaign," a Trump campaign spokesperson told ABC News. "This sham investigation by Joe Biden and his weaponized DOJ are clearly designed to inflict maximum political damage and to prevent President Trump ... from reclaiming the White House."
A spokesperson for the special counsel's office declined to comment. The Justice Department and the White House have both denied any political interference in the special counsel's investigation.
The alleged exchange between Trump and Wiles is the second of two instances detailed by prosecutors in the indictment showing how Trump allegedly disclosed classified information in private meetings after leaving the White House. The first was a July 2021 audio recording,obtained by ABC Newsearlier this week, in which Trump is heard showing people what he describes as a "secret" and "highly confidential" document relating to Iran.
ABC News has reported the meeting involved people who were helping Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, with his memoir, according to sources. Smith's team has spoken to the meeting's attendees, which included the writers helping Meadows with his book and at least two aides to Trump, according to sources.
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and continues to claim he was not showing off classified documents, as he seems to be doing during the meeting, according to an audio recording of the meeting.
"I would say it's bravado," Trumptold ABC News Tuesdayabout his conversation in the recording. "If you want to know the truth, it was bravado. I was talking about just holding up papers and talking about, but I have no documents. I didn't have any documents."
It does not appear, based on the indictment, that Trump was charged specifically for his retention of either the Iran document or the classified map shown to the person identified as Wiles. Rather, the two instances speak to what Smith's prosecutors see as Trump's state of mind in how he handled and sometimes shared classified materials in his possession after leaving the White House, sources said, as well as his alleged efforts to subvert the government’s efforts to get the documents back.
If the identification of Wiles by sources is accurate, it also raises the prospect that should Trump's case go to trial prior to the 2024 election, one of the top figures leading his reelection bid could be called to testify as a key witness. Wiles, who previously helped lead Trump’s now-GOP primary opponent Ron DeSantis’s two campaigns for governor, is seen as one of Trump's most trusted confidants.
She also led Trump’s campaign operations in Florida in 2016, and was later CEO of Trump's Save America political action committee.
While Trump has not named a 2024 campaign manager, Wiles, along with Chris LaCivita and Brian Jack, are the team steering the campaign's efforts. including all spending, fundraising and infrastructure.
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Sources have also further identified some of the other figures mentioned by Smith's team in the indictment. Hayley Harrison and Molly Michael are said to be "Trump Employee 1" and "Trump Employee 2," respectively. The indictment details their text messages back and forth about moving Trump's boxes out of the business center as his Mar-a-Lago estate to create room for staff to work.
Michael, whose name was previously reported as an individual identified in the indictment, is Trump's former executive assistant who no longer works for him, while Harrison is currently an aide to Trump's wife, Melania Trump.
"There is still a little room in the shower where his other stuff is. Is it only his papers he cares about?" Trump Employee 1, identified by sources as Harrison, wrote Trump Employee 2, identified by sources as Michael, according to the indictment. "There's some other stuff in there that are not papers. Could that go to storage? Or does he want everything in there on property."
According to the indictment, Trump's longtime aide Walt Nauta and Trump Employee 2, identified by sources as Michael, exchanged text messages between November 2021 and January 2022 about bringing boxes from the storage room to Trump's residence so he could personally review their contents. In one instance in December 2021, Nauta texted Trump Employee 2 about finding that several of Trump's boxes had fallen on the floor with their contents spilled, and sent a photo to her whose image included a document with visible classification markings.
Nauta wascharged alongside Trumpearlier this month with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.
Nauta and Trump Employee 2, identified by sources as Michael, exchanged messages back and forth about the status of Trump's review of the boxes, and on Dec. 29, 2021, Trump Employee 2 texted "Trump Representative 1," who sources say is former Trump lawyer Alex Cannon, to provide him an update, according to the indictment. Cannon was in touch with the National Archives and responsible for facilitating the initial transfer of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago back to the National Archives in January 2022.
None of the people named by sources as being individuals described in the indictment are accused of any wrongdoing.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for mid-July to address the handling of classified materials in the trial.
Trump, who earlier this monthpleaded not guiltyto all the charges outlined in Smith's indictment, has dismissed the special counsel's probe as a politically motivated witch hunt.
