An aide to former President Donald Trump at both the White House and then at Mar-a-Lago has been indicted in Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation the day after Trump revealed he had been charged.
Trump announced the indictment of his personal aide Walt Nauta in a social media post, blasting what he called an unjust prosecution of a “wonderful man.”
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“I have just learned that the ‘Thugs’ from the Department of Injustice will be Indicting a wonderful man, Walt Nauta, a member of the U.S. Navy, who served proudly with me in the White House, retired as Senior Chief, and then transitioned into private life as a personal aide,” Trump said on his Truth Social site Friday morning. “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.’ He is strong, brave, and a Great Patriot. The FBI and DOJ are CORRUPT!”
A day earlier, Trump revealed that Smith, who was handpicked by Attorney General Merrick Garland, had informed him that he was being indicted related to his alleged mishandling of classified records and that he had been summoned to appear in a Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday afternoon.
It was not immediately clear what the charges against Nauta are.
Nauta was a former Navy sailor and military valet in the Trump White House who then followed Trump to his Florida resort home of Mar-a-Lago after the former president lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
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The Trump bodyman, who also accompanied the 2024 GOP frontrunner on campaign trips this year, reportedly moved around boxes at Mar-a-Lago which contained government records that Trump had retained after leaving the White House.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
