Trump aide Walt Nauta indicted for role in Mar-a-Lago documents scandal

An aide to former President Donald Trump has also been indicted for taking part in an alleged scheme to obstruct government efforts to retrieve top-secret documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Walt Nauta, a former military valet who followed Trump to Mar-a-Lago after working in the Trump White House, has also been charged.

The WSJ report notes that Nauta "has long been a focus" of the investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents "after he was seen on surveillance footage moving boxes from a storage room before and after investigators issued a May subpoena seeking the return of all government documents in Trump’s possession."

Nauta was allegedly told investigators that he had moved boxes of classified documents at Trump's request.

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Trump currently faces a slew of legal problems, including a civil lawsuit over allegedly fraudulent business practices from New York Attorney General Letitia James; criminal charges related to his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels; criminal charges related to his decision to stash top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort; and two different investigations into his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

Trump was also recently found liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll.