A former aide to ex-President Donald Trump, Walt Nauta, has been charged alongside Trump for the alleged mishandling of nationwide security paperwork. Nauta, a US Navy veteran, served as a White House navy valet throughout Trump’s presidency and later became his assistant at his Florida mansion after Trump left workplace. Nauta is dealing with six expenses, together with conspiracy to impede justice, withholding records, concealing paperwork, and making false statements.
Trump defended Nauta on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating that Nauta was a “wonderful man” and accusing officials at the US Department of Justice of trying to destroy the aide’s life. Trump wrote that Nauta “served proudly with me within the White House, retired as Senior Chief, and then transitioned into private life as a personal aide.”
According to the indictment, Trump directed Nauta to move bins that had been a focus of the investigation from a storage room and to conceal them from Trump’s lawyer, the FBI, and the grand jury. Nauta, who was born in Agat, Guam, a US territory, enlisted within the US Navy in 2001. Navy records indicate that he rose through the ranks to turn out to be a Senior Chief Culinary Specialist in 2021. Nauta became an executive assistant to Trump in August 2021 and continued to function an aide to the former president at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Odd s shut relationship with Trump has made him a goal of the justice department’s investigation into classified documents that the ex-president took with him to Florida after leaving the White House. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Post earlier than the costs have been filed, Nauta’s members of the family in Guam described him as a “good boy” who moved to the United States “to enjoy his life, not to cause problems.”