Former President Donald Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty on Thursday to additional charges issued last month in their classified documents case in Florida.
While Trump, 77, did not appear at the courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., Nauta entered his plea in person before US Magistrate Judge Shaniek Maynard. The 45th president’s attorney, Todd Blanche, entered the not guilty plea on Trump’s behalf.on June 13 and July 6 respectively to the initial counts in the indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
At Trump’s bidding, prosecutors say, Nauta shifted boxes of 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. , was also scheduled to enter his plea Thursday, but his arraignment was postponed due to his failure to hire a local attorney to represent him alongside his Washington-based federal lawyers.
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