District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who handled his lawsuit last year over the FBI search. The case appears to have been initially directed toward U.S. The indictment comes nearly a year after more than 100 documents with classified markings were found during the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago. Trump announced in a social media post Thursday that he had been indicted in connection with his handling of the records and had been ordered to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon.
The special counsel’s investigation has focused in part on Nauta, who is reportedly seen on surveillance video helping a maintenance worker move boxes from the storage room before the FBI executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.Īccording to the indictment, Nauta made multiple false statements, including saying he was not aware the boxes had been taken to Trump’s residence for review before 15 of them were sent to the National Archives, and didn’t know how boxes taken to a National Archives truck had come to be in the residence and that he falsely denied knowing where the boxes had been stored before they were found in Trump’s residence, saying, “I wish I could tell you. “He has done a fantastic job! They are trying to destroy his life, like the lives of so many others, hoping that he will say bad things about ‘Trump,’” the former president said of Nauta. Trump defended Nauta, a Navy veteran who was frequently by his side in the White House, in a Truth Social post before the indictment was made public. Nauta was indicted alongside Trump on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheming to conceal and making false statements and representations. The indictment states that the recovered classified records came from the CIA, the Defense Department, the National Security Agency and the State Department, among other sources. More than 100 documents with classified markings were found during an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that August. The Justice Department learned of the move and the possibility that classified documents remained at the estate, and gained judicial approval for a search warrant. (Justice Department via Associated Press) In a brief televised statement, Smith urged the public to read the indictment in order to understand “the gravity of the crimes charged.” He also said he was aiming for a speedy trial. Trump is charged with willful retention of national defense information conspiracy to obstruct justice withholding a document or record corruptly concealing a document in a federal investigation scheming to conceal and false statements and representations. Visible in the photo are documents marked with a designation that the information can only be released to the closest allies of the U.S.: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. One of the photos shows a stack of boxes that had fallen over in a storage room.
The indictment includes several photos of the boxes in different locations around Mar-a-Lago, including on a ballroom stage, where they stayed for two months while the ballroom continued to be used for events, and a bathroom and shower.
That at his order, only some of the boxes of documents were made available when his lawyer searched for classified records to comply with the subpoena.That he questioned whether he needed to comply with an FBI subpoena, asking his lawyer: “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?”.That twice in 2021, he showed a classified document to individuals without security clearances.That he stored them in boxes that weren’t behind locked doors, including on the stage of a ballroom and in a bathroom.vulnerabilities to attack and the military capabilities of the U.S. That he retained documents detailing U.S.
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