Jack Smith dismantles Trump valet's argument that he should face no charges for his 'surreptitious box movement'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Apr 27th, 2024, 10:02 am


The Special Counsel’s Office on Friday urged the Mar-a-Lago judge to neither throw out the case against former President Donald Trump’s valet and co-defendant nor allow Walt Nauta to pursue discovery based on claims, “without merit,” that prosecutors are treating him differently from similarly situated witnesses and with vindictiveness or “animus” towards him.

Special counsel Jack Smith first dismantled Nauta’s assertion that two uncharged Mar-a-Lago employees, identified only as Persons 10 and 11, were selectively treated as helpful to the prosecution while he was charged with crimes over his “surreptitious box movement,” which allegedly occurred before a Trump lawyer searched for classified documents that the government was seeking to recover from a storage room in June 2022.

In August 2023, the special counsel revealed that Trump Employee 4, the IT director at Mar-a-Lago, had “implicated” Trump, Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira “in efforts to delete security camera footage,” footage that the government said supported its obstruction case against Trump and his “body man” Nauta for allegedly concealing boxes of documents from the Trump lawyer before that attorney’s storage room search.

The IT director, Smith said, was first represented by Nauta’s lawyer Stanley Woodward, but when the prosecution raised perjury concerns, Trump Employee 4 got a new lawyer and “retracted his prior false testimony.”

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Full headline: ‘Not remotely comparable’: Jack Smith dismantles Trump valet’s argument that he should face no charges for his ‘surreptitious box movement’ just like other Mar-a-Lago employees

[erronis]

1. Hard to imagine what trump and his owners can offer Nauta to not spill the beans.

I'm guessing the "offer" may be more a negative - "we won't kill you" than an IOU.

[Mz Pip]

2. A true MAGA loyalist

He’ll go down with the ship before he betrays his idol.

[jvill]

3. It's not a secret: A lawyer and a pardon...

… is what has been offered. The latter if Trump wins election, of course.

But not sure if “dismantling” anything matters when the judge is an inexperience d incompetent rife with conflicts of interest and routinely ruling as if she’s in the tank for Trump. Why any of us are expected to give our court system any credibility with Trump is a mystery to me..

[Novara]

4. I am so fucking sick of victimhood

"Oh, you're treating me different, wahhhhhhhh."

Suck it up, you bunch of criminals.