Trump, Personal Aide Plead Not Guilty To New Charges In US Documents Superseding Indictment | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Former President Donald Trump and his personal aide Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new federal charges in the classified documents superseding the indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

    Trump, who was already facing more than 40 charges in the indictment, was charged with one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. He reportedly entered his plea deal through his attorneys after he waived his right last week to make an in-person appearance in court at the Thursday hearing.

    The charges stem from alleged attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after investigators delivered a subpoena to Trump seeking the materials in his possession.

    Co-defendant Nauta, who already faced four charges, was accused of misleading investigators in the case. He pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice and false statements on Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shaniek Mills Maynard in Florida, Reuters reported.

    Nauta, who was a member of the United States Navy stationed as a valet in the White House while Trump was in office, became Trump's executive assistant and served as Trump's "personal aide or 'body man,' in August 2021, the indictment says.

    Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort property manager Carlos De Oliveira also appeared in court on Thursday but did not enter a plea, after lawyers said he has yet to secure legal counsel licensed to practice in Florida.

    De Oliveira was named a co-defendant for allegedly hiding security camera footage from federal investigators. He is also accused of helping Nauta move boxes of classified material around Trump's Mar-a-Lago property after the Department of Justice issued a subpoena seeking the materials.

    All three defendants stood before Magistrate Judge Maynard in the Fort Pierce federal courthouse on Thursday morning during their arraignment, according to The Miami Herald.

    The trial is scheduled to take place at the courthouse in May 2024

    According to the classified documents indictment, Trump stored information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.

    The former president allegedly had classified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Department of Energy, and the Department of State and Bureau of Intelligence and Research.


    Prosecutors accused the former president of storing the classified information in a bathroom, shower, and ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida. The indictment also alleges Trump shared classified information with unauthorized people at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.

    Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

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poll#173

In the face of a known scandal finally being revealed by the corrupt Legacy Media regarding Joe Biden, his Mishandling of Classified Documents and his long history of Influence Peddling to our Foreign Adversaries for Personal and Familial Profit: What do you believe the outcome will be in America's Leftist practice of a Two Tiered Justice System?

  Nothing will happen since the Democratic Socialist Left is corrupt to the core, and their non patriot ambitions are only the control of power.

  Justice WILL be served, but NOT without a tremendous fight by those willing to save the Republic.

  Why can't everyone else understand that the Left is special because we care so much for our own, especially the well being of the president and his family, especially Hunter.

  What difference does it make; I am a product of a failed public education system.

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