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Edtior\u2019s note: This story has been updated with additional information.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK \u2014 When former President Donald Trump<\/a> appeared in federal court Tuesday, he was joined at the defense table by a man well-practiced in standing by his side: his valet turned alleged co-conspirator, Walt Nauta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta, a Navy veteran from Guam, was a White House military valet to Trump. The BBC reported<\/a> that Navy records show Nauta enlisted in 2001 and achieved the rank of senior chief culinary specialist in 2021. He was serving in the White House cafeteria when Trump elevated him to serve as his military aide. Nauta retired from the Navy when Trump left the White House, according to the BBC, and joined the former president as his personal aide at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta now finds himself in legal jeopardy alongside the former president. He is accused of moving boxes from the White House at Trump\u2019s direction and then lying about it to investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this courtroom sketch, former President Donald Trump, left, is escorted out of the courtroom by a U.S. Marshal with co-defendant Walt Nauta, right, walking behind him as another U.S, Marshal holds the door follow their proceeding in federal court, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Nauta traveled in the former president\u2019s motorcade to the Miami courthouse, where Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted on federal charges. In court, the two sat at the defendants\u2019 table together \u2014 one of Trump\u2019s attorneys between them \u2014 as Trump pleaded not guilty to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents and refusing government demands to give them back. Nauta himself did not enter a plea because he did not have a local attorney and will instead be arraigned on June 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the appearance, Nauta accompanied Trump to a stop at Miami\u2019s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta is the latest in a series of Trump loyalists to face potential jail time after his work for the former president. Michael Cohen, Trump\u2019s longtime fixer and attorney, spent more than 13 months in prison<\/a> over payouts he helped arrange during the 2016 presidential race to keep women from going public about alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, just finished serving<\/a> three months at Rikers Island after pleading guilty to receiving $1.7 million in unreported job perks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLoyalty to Donald Trump is like First Avenue in Manhattan: one way. History has shown time and again that Donald cares for no one other than himself,\u201d said Cohen, who has since turned on Trump and eventually tried to win leniency by cooperating with prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta, according to the indictment unsealed Friday, played a crucial role in the alleged scheme with Trump, who is charged with 37 counts of illegally hoarding classified documents<\/a> and obstructing the government\u2019s efforts to get them back. The government alleges Nauta helped pack Trump\u2019s boxes before he left the White House and repeatedly moved them to various rooms at Mar-a-Lago in response to Trump\u2019s requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, the indictment alleges, Nauta discovered several boxes had fallen over in the storage room, dumping their contents on the floor. Nauta snapped and shared photographs of the scene, which included a document with a visible marking warning it was restricted to only the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta was key to Trump\u2019s investigation early on, with FBI agents grilling him about the movement of boxes inside Mar-a-Lago weeks before serving their search warrant at the property. Like other witnesses close to Trump, though, his answers to law enforcement put him in legal jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although prosecutors say Nauta moved boxes of documents to Trump\u2019s residence for his review at his direction, Nauta lied to agents by saying he wasn\u2019t aware of that happening, according to the indictment. And when agents asked if he knew where on the property the boxes had been stored, he said, \u201cI wish, I wish I could tell you. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t \u2014 I honestly just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta\u2019s attorney, Stanley Woodward, declined to answer questions about the charges or any efforts to get his client to turn on the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nauta faces six federal charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, corruptly concealing a document or record and making false statements. His inclusion in the indictment was met by protest from Trump, who praised Nauta as \u201ca wonderful man\u201d who had \u201cdone a fantastic job!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are trying to destroy his life, like the lives of so many others, hoping that he will say bad things about \u2018Trump.\u2019 He is strong, brave, and a Great Patriot. The FBI and DOJ are CORRUPT!\u201d he wrote on his social media site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ty Cobb, the former White House attorney who served as Trump\u2019s lawyer during the Russia investigation, said he felt sorry for Nauta, whom he described as a dutiful worker who \u201cnods and then does what he\u2019s been told to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think Walt is easy prey for the president because this is a dedicated patriot,\u201d he said. \u201cThe proudest moment he ever had was being named valet to the president and sadly the president he got named valet for was Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cobb recalled Nauta stopping by his home, checking in on him and fetching him club soda when he was working late. He said he remembered how Nauta noticed \u2014 after dozens of uneaten hamburgers \u2014 that Cobb didn\u2019t eat meat and quietly began substituting salmon for his lunches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really sad that people were not able to convince him of his misplaced loyalty,\u201d Cobb said of Nauta\u2019s decision not to cooperate with prosecutors. \u201cHe should be a witness. He shouldn\u2019t be a defendant. But you can only dangle that opportunity for so long before you have to shoot. So I think it\u2019s tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Dean, the White House counsel who testified against former President Richard Nixon over Watergate and later served four months for obstructing justice, said that he would advise Nauta to turn against Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe could strike a good deal and help put it away for the government,\u201d he said on CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for Cohen, he gave grand jury testimony over the hush money payments that led to the first-ever criminal charges against a former president. Trump was indicted in March in New York on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to the payouts to the women who alleged sexual encounters with him. Trump has denied the allegations and any criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weisselberg, who testified against the Trump Organization at his trial, said on the witness stand that neither Trump nor his family knew about the tax scheme. Prosecutors maintained Trump \u201cknew exactly what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen said Nauta should learn from his own experience that devotion to Trump isn\u2019t worth the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI predict Walt will suffer the exact same outcome as the rest of us who have all been thrown under the bus for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,\u201d Cohen said, describing \u201cjust another Trump acolyte whose life has been turned completely upside down for his misguided loyalty to a man who didn\u2019t deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writer<\/i>s Alanna Durkin Richer in Miami and Eric Tucker in Washington and Military Times staff contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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