Associated Press
A valet for Donald Trump accused of helping the former President hide classified documents from federal authorities is due back in a Florida court on Thursday after an earlier appearance was postponed because of a canceled flight.
Walt Nauta, who was charged alongside Trump in June in a 38-count indictment alleging the mishandling of classified documents, is set to be arraigned before a federal magistrate in Miami. That was to have happened twice before already, but he has struggled to retain a lawyer licensed in Florida to represent him.
Trump pleaded not guilty during his June 13 arraignment to charges including willful retention of national defense information. But Nauta’s arraignment was postponed that day because he did not have with him a defense attorney authorized to practice in Florida. It was pushed back again last week when a flight from New Jersey he was to have taken was canceled after being delayed on the tarmac for hours.
The indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors accuses Nauta of conspiring with Trump to conceal records that he had taken with him from the White House after this term ended in January 2021.
Prosecutors allege that Nauta, at the former President’s direction, moved boxes of documents bearing classification markings so that they would not be found by a Trump lawyer who was tasked with searching the home for classified records to be returned to the government. That, prosecutors said, resulted in a false claim to the Justice Department that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been done and that all documents responsive to a subpoena had been returned.
Nauta is a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago. He is regularly by Trump’s side, even traveling in Trump’s motorcade to the Miami courthouse for their appearance earlier this month and accompanying him afterwards to a stop at the city’s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
8 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 6, 2023 at 8:37 am
Rhonda wants to be Trump’s new Walt Nauta.
That’s why Rhonda’s campaign seems so confused. Rhonda doesn’t want to be President. They don’t even want to be Vice President. They just wanna be Walt.
And now Rhonda’s Disney thing makes some amount of sense: Rhonda doesn’t only want to be Walt Nauta. Rhonda wants to be all the Walts.
And the book banning thing? That must be about Walt Whitman.
Rhonda Dee Walt DeSantis.
I may have unraveled the tragi-mystery named Rhonda. They are obsessed with power tools from Home Depot. Rhonda feels like they are not a real man because they’ve used a power tool. Hence all of Rhonda’s anti-trans, anti-drag, anti-gay.
And why does Rhonda seems so racist? Walt “King of Cool” Frazier.
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Real Native Floridian Thomas Kaspar
July 6, 2023 at 9:04 am
Prosecutors now allege White House Chef Marco Pierre White had also removed two recipes containing secret sauces from Whitehouse kitchen in Washington DC and took them to Palm Beach hidden under a large jar of pickled gherkins in Trumps Mar-a-Lago residence . Prosecutor Jack Smith was quoted as saying it does not matter if its like thousand Island or Arbys horsey sauce no one is above the law when it comes to Whitehouse secrets . Adam Schiff was quoted as saying Trump may have wanted to sell secret sauce to Russia since the McDonalds withdrawal of Russian operations they have not been able to make Big Mac sauce .
Dont Say FLA
July 6, 2023 at 10:42 am
Thomas, nobody cares about the jokes you saw on the Newsmax website. Be funny or be thoughtful or please be quiet.
Thomas Kaspar
July 6, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Don’t worry Karen Rs are coming to fix this mess .
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Joe
July 6, 2023 at 3:50 pm
Ladies and gentleman, we present your Trump classified docs fall-guy, Walt Nauta! Take a fall, Walt!
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