Christie calls Trump's team 'the Corleones with no experience' amid indictments

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Sunday labeled Donald Trump and his team "the Corleones with no experience" after additional charges were filed against the former president over his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.

"This is bad stuff. And you can't say there was no underlying potential crime here," Christie told CNN's Kasie Hunt on "State of the Union" after comparing Trump and his allies to the fictional Corleone family from "The Godfather."

"This was the withholding of confidential classified information from the government. After 18 months of asking Donald Trump to return it voluntarily, not only did he not return it. He lied about having it," the former New Jersey governor added.

Prosecutors allege in an updated indictment that two Trump employees - aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira - attempted to delete security camera footage at the former president's resort after the Justice Department had issued a subpoena for it.

De Oliveira told the director of IT at the resort "that 'the boss' wanted the server deleted," according to the indictment.

Trump, who already faced 37 criminal charges in the classified documents case, was charged with one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts.

The former president on Sunday denied that he directed his employees to delete security footage, claiming in a Truth Social post that his legal team had "voluntarily" turned over the security tapes to authorities.