Waltine Nauta, personal assistant to the former president donald trump (2017-2021), stated this Thursday in a federal court of Miami not guilty of the charges he faces for his role in the mishandling classified documents found at the ex-president’s Florida residence.

Nauta appeared in a hearing before federal magistrate Edwin Torres today, accompanied by his attorney, Stanley Woodward, who is now joined by Florida attorney Sasha Dadan, and He pleaded not guilty to the six crimes he faces in the impeachment brought against him and Trump by the United States government.

The assistant arrived at the courthouse in the morning after a hearing scheduled for last week was postponed because he missed a flight from New Jersey, and besides, he didn’t have an attorney with Florida jurisdiction at the time to enter your plea. guilty, as required by the laws of this state.

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Nauta, who barely managed to smile at the reporters who questioned him upon his arrival at the court, has hired attorney Sasha Dadan, whose office is located in the city of Fort Pierce, north of Miami, and where the trial is scheduled . place judgment.

Former member of the United States Navy faces crimes such as illegal withholding of classified documents related to US defense.obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI, punishable by imprisonment and fines.

Walter Nauta. (Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP)
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Who was Trump’s military aide during his presidency (2017-2021)) is identified by the State Department as one of those who moved boxes of official documents to the Republican’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach so that FBI agents and the former president’s lawyers could not access them. find.

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Nauta made her first official appearance in court on June 13, next to former President Trump, but that day the hearing for the reading of the indictment was moved to a new date. At the time, as at the subsequent hearing, Nauta did not have a lawyer licensed to practice in Florida.

The former president is charged with 37 counts related to seven crimes, including illegal withholding of classified documents related to US defense. and obstruction of justice, to which he pleaded not guilty.