Not sure when the happened, but the location of “Trash” has moved from “~/.Trash” to “~/.local/share/Trash”.  There is also a new structure for the trash folder.  It has a directory named “files” for the deleted files. There is an additional directory named “info” which contains when the files were deleted & where they were deleted from.

To delete the trash from the command line type

rm -rI ~/.local/share/Trash/*

Or you could use this command, if you don’t want to confirm your delete

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

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