Walt Nauta, personal aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump who faces charges of being Trump’s co-conspirator in the alleged mishandling of classified documents, walks with Trump during a LIV Golf Pro-Am golf tournament at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. May 25, 2023.
Jonathan Ernst | Reuters
The Department of Justice on Wednesday moved to end its attempt to criminally try two men for their alleged efforts to help their former co-defendant President Donald Trump hide classified government documents from officials seeking their recovery.
The DOJ, in a court filing, sought to voluntarily dismiss an appeal that sought to revive its prosecution of the men, Trump’s valet Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, a worker at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. The filing was signed by Miami U.S. Attorney Hayden O’Byrne.
The DOJ after November’s election dropped an appeal that sought to revive the criminal case against Trump because of a department policy that bars prosecutions of sitting presidents.
Trump had been charged with crimes related to his retention of classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago after the end of his first term in the White House in January 2021, and with obstructing the recovery of those records by officials.
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