Donald Trump’s body man, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court Thursday to charges of allegedly helping the 45th president hoard classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and then lying about it.
Nauta, a former White House valet, is accused of moving sensitive papers around the Palm Beach, Fla., resort to hide them from both the 77-year-old Trump’s lawyers and from the feds.
Attorney Stanley Woodward entered the plea on his client’s behalf to six counts including making false statements, scheming to conceal, corrupt concealment, concealing a document in a federal probe, withholding a document or record and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
At Trump’s bidding, prosecutors say, Nauta shifted boxes of the records so that the 45th president’s lawyers couldn’t find them — leaving them to wrongly report to federal investigators that a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago had been conducted.
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