Walt Nauta, a 40-year-old Navy veteran, was charged with conspiracy, making false statements and withholding documents as part of Trump’s effort to thwart the government’s attempts to reclaim the c…
On May 25, as former President Donald Trump was at the Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament at his course in Sterling, Virginia, one of his aides was photographed leaning toward him and dutifully adjusting the collar of his white pullover, a moment of closeness that had become routine for the pair.
Until now largely unknown to the public, Nauta has been thrust into the spotlight as a low-level but central figure in the conspiracy being alleged by prosecutors. Nauta, who has been on Trump’s campaign payroll, was part of Trump’s traveling retinue during a trip to Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday.
On the same day that the prosecutors arrived at Mar-a-Lago to meet with Corcoran and collect the classified material, Nauta and others “loaded several of Trump’s boxes with other items on aircraft that flew Trump and his family north for the summer,” the indictment says. Peter Carr, a spokesperson for the special counsel Jack Smith, who now oversees the documents case, has declined to comment on the allegation.Trump’s allies have said that the threat of an indictment hovering for months took a toll on Nauta, who has been described as a stoic presence around Trump.
An episode from December 2021 suggests that Nauta could have known the boxes contained sensitive materials. Nauta falsely told investigators that he was “not aware of Trump’s boxes being brought to Trump’s residence for his review,” the indictment said. Nauta also lied, the indictment said, by claiming that he had no idea how the boxes that he and the other employee had taken from Trump’s residence to the truck outside got to the residence in the first place.
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