All posts tagged "Walt Nauta"

Judge Cannon has rejected a major dismissal request for a Donald Trump co-defendant in the Espionage Act case in Florida, according to court records Saturday.

Cannon, who earlier in the day was put on notice by a former prosecutor who said she was in danger of being removed from the classified documents case, has been criticized for appearing biased in favor of the former president who appointed her to her lifetime position on the federal bench in Florida.

Over the weekend, however, Cannon surprised some onlookers by rejecting a motion by Walt Nauta, Trump's valet, to be dismissed from the case for alleged selective prosecution and vindictive prosecution....

Federal prosecutors slammed former President Donald Trump's body man Walt Nauta for his latest push to delay the trial proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, in a blistering filing made public on Friday.

Specifically, Nauta has filed for an extension on the May 9 deadline U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon set for expert disclosures filed by the defendants, and a notice under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA).

"Originally, Nauta had counted on leveraging his counsel’s vacation and trial schedule to delay the proceedings," stated the filing. "But when his counsel’s trial schedule excuse evaporated, Nauta was forced to devise a new basis — that the Government’s discovery is insufficient for him to identify the classified evidence he wants to disclose at trial and to notice any expert testimony. Nauta’s latest basis for delay is both factually wrong."...

Walt Nauta, Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents criminal case in Florida, told a grand jury that his boss would throw papers "on the floor" when he "would leave for the evening," according to a new filing in court.

Nauta, who has so far stood by Trump's side in the case being overseen by the Trump-appointed jurist Aileen Cannon, was apparently more candid in his grand jury testimony than some might expect.

In a filing made public on Friday, citizens got their first look at certain grand jury testimony by Nauta himself, according to a reporter....

The only proof former President Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta offered that he’s the victim of a vindictive courtroom witch hunt is a chat his lawyers had with prosecutors over coffee, according to special counsel Jack Smith.

Smith makes this argument in a new filing to Florida’s federal court on Wednesday in rebuttal to Nauta’s bid to avoid criminal charges that he helped conceal documents at Trump’s social club Mar-a-Lago.

“Many of the factual allegations are flat-out false, and the associated theories of animus are deeply flawed,” Smith wrote of Nauta’s argument. ...

Special counsel Jack Smith has slapped down a dismissal motion from Donald Trump's body man Walt Nauta in the classified documents case in which both face criminal charges, court records show.

Smith filed a response in Florida federal court contesting Nauta's demand that charges of concealing or withholding documents and taking part in a conspiracy to obstruct justice be dropped.

“Nauta’s challenges to the charges get the law entirely wrong,” Smith writes. “Nauta’s motion should be denied in its entirety, and no hearing is required to address the issues he raises.”...

Influencer etiquette at Mar-A-Lago — the place Special Counsel Jack Smith contends Donald Trump stored top secret documents in violation of national security laws — sparked a virtual fist-throwing fight on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday.

“We memed ... your goofy a-- for MONTHS and when you saw me in person REPEATEDLY at Mar-a-lago, you didn't say S---,” wrote MAGA life coach Brenden Dilley of his interaction with Republican influencer Rob Smith at the Trump estate where FBI agents say they uncovered 11,000 official documents, 17 of them marked top secret.

This et tu? moment was spurred by an incendiary post from Laura Loomer, an influencer and fan of Trump, who Smith contends stored the official documents on a ballroom stage during a period of time when Mar-A-Lago hosted tens of thousands of guests. ...