If you think it's wild that #Nauta pointed up at security cameras in footage because he and #trump talked about how to avoid them, wait until you read the #indictment and learn that trump also asked nauta to delete the earlier footage after #MerrickGarland served a #subpoena for the tapes.
4 months after the #FBI raided #MarALago, Trump’s attys discovered 4 docs marked #classified in his personal bedroom.
That revelation was among several cited by US District Judge Beryl Howell in a newly unsealed 2023 opinion that found prosecutors had presented compelling #evidence that #Trump#knowingly stashed #NationalSecurity docs in his home & then tried to conceal them when the #DOJ tried to retrieve them.
Related: Chief Judge Boasberg denied#Trump “body man” #WaltNauta’s request to transfer some #GrandJury materials from DC to #Florida, says #Nauta failed to make specific case.
Maybe by Friday people will figure out how Woodward snookered them.
Again.
I mean, Cannon won't. But Leonard Leo doesn't pay her to see thru Woodward's games.
Hugo Lowell:
New: #Trump co-defendant in classified docs case Walt #Nauta has had his postponed hearing about his lawyer’s potential conflicts of interest rescheduled for this Friday, on Oct. 20 at 2pm in Fort Pierce #legal#TrumpIndictment#documents.
"Cannon admonished the gov for 'wasting the court's
time.'" 👈🏼All you need to know about her.
Via Katherine Faulders:
NEWS - Judge Aileen #Cannon has postponed the hearing for #Trump co-defendant Walt #Nauta over potential conflicts of interest w/ his lawyer Stan Woodward bc she said the gov introduced new arguments related to the matter. Cannon admonished the gov for "wasting the court's time." #legal#TrumpIndictment#documents
…#MollyMichael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from #Trump that were written on the back of notecards, & she later recognized those notecards as #sensitive#WhiteHouse materials -- w/visible #classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls w/ #foreign leaders or other #international-related matters.
Speaking to federal investigators, Michael recounted how, by late 2021, as many as 90 boxes of materials from #Trump's time as president were moved into a basement storage room at MAL, & how -- as pressure from #NARA mounted -- she & Trump aide Walt #Nauta would bring boxes to Trump's #residence for him to review.
Trump eventually agreed to turn over 15 boxes of materials, which Michael told investigators she viewed as a positive sign….
Walt #Nauta's lawyer Stan Woodward accused feds of "pressure" and "manipulation" to make a former client flip—and wants Judge Cannon to bench that ex-client (a key witness) from testifying at the classified docs trial. #TrumpIndictment#legalhttps://t.co/MpBJxZujIx
Yesterday p.m., DOJ filed redacted versions of 7 search warrant affidavits from Oct/Nov re: the #Trump classified #documents probe. They show focus on Walt #Nauta efforts to obtain phone records, emails, other comms related to the movement of boxes at Mar-a-Lago #legal#TrumpIndictment
JUST IN: Lawyer for #Trump aide Walt #Nauta accuses prosecutors of quoted publicly from sealed submission amid fight over alleged conflict with another Mar-a-Lago aide also getting paid representation from a Trump PAC https://t.co/QzLpziHY32#TrumpIndictment#legal
I'm sure #Cannon will do the right thing... the FAR right thing.
Via Zoe Tillman:
Lawyers for Donald #Trump and Waltine “Walt” #Nauta accused prosecutors of improperly using a DC grand jury to gather evidence after they were charged in #Florida in June with mishandling classified information and obstruction. DOJ due to respond 8/22. #legal#TrumpIndictmenthttps://t.co/0bAcCOIYIl
Trump valet pleads not guilty to latest charges in classified documents case
Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, appeared before a judge in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, and pleaded not guilty to conspiring with the former president to obstruct the investigation into his possession of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
#Trump & his “body-man Walt #Nauta pleaded not guilty to new criminal charges brought by special counsel #JackSmith in the Mar-a-Lago classified #documents case, while the arraignment for his co-defendant Carlos #DeOliveira has been postponed because he still doesn’t have a #Florida lawyer.” 🙄 #legal#TrumpIndictment
Judge #Cannon [STILL] says no to media's request to bring electronics into the Fort Pierce courthouse for tomorrow's arraignment on the superseding indictment in the classified docs case against #Trump (he won't be there, waived appearance), Walt #Nauta and Carlos #DeOliveira#legal#TrumpIndictment#Florida
JUST IN: DOJ wants a hearing on Walt #Nauta attorney Stan WOODWARD's potential conflicts. He represents (or recently represented) three people the government intends to call as witnesses in the docs trial. #TrumpIndictment#legal
#Trump and Walt #Nauta are set to be arraigned on the superseding indictment in the classified #documents case on Aug. 10 -- TBD if he'll go in person, he can waive that and DOJ said in a filing last week they wouldn't oppose it #legal#JackSmith#TrumpIndictment
A third defendant has been added to the #Trump classified #documents case. Carlos #DeOliveira has been added to the docket charging Trump and Walt #Nauta.
NYT identified Carlos Deoliveira as the worker who drained the pool at Mar-a-Lago in October and, in the process, flooded the room where surveillance footage is kept. #legal#JackSmith
The time to sever Walt Nauta's future from Trump's was last year. He's an alleged co-conspirator now.
Anna Bower:
#Trump’s co-defendant, Walt #Nauta, appeared in court alongside attorneys Stanley Woodward & Sasha Dadan.
Woodward argued that setting a firm trial date is unrealistic bc he needs to review discovery before advising Nauta as to whether he should “sever” his trial from Trump’s. #TrumpIndictment#legal
New: As Judge #Cannon made debut at hearing in classif #documents case she appeared disinclined to grant #JackSmith request for Dec trial date but also seemed skeptical of #Trump/#Nauta bid to delay til after 2024 elec.
~2 hour hearing, Cannon peppered both defense & prosecutors w Qs abt anticip discovery & motion practice timeline.
But put off setting trial date indic instead she will enter written order “soon” #TrumpIndictment
JUST IN: #CANNON makes explicit that she wants #Trump team ready to address #DOJ's proposed trial schedule, as well as any specific objections to the deadlines laid out by prosecutors.
Unclear whether this will be held under seal. There's no reason it should be, and Cannon is clearly aware of intense national (and international) interest in this. But because of its connection to the hearing on classified procedures (which is typically sealed), it may be. #legal
Judge Cannon directs prosecutors and lawyers for Trump/Walt #Nauta to be ready to talk about their fight over the trial schedule at tomorrow's hearing -- DOJ wants a December trial, Trump wants no trial date for now/maybe no trial until after the 2024 election