
Navy and was hired as a personal assistant by Trump in 2021. Nauta is a former White House cook who served in the U.S. Until Thursday, Nauta had been represented solely by Woodward. She proposed instead to address mental health funding and metal detectors in schools. The campaign took place in the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, and she opposed new gun control restrictions because she said they would take guns out of the wrong hands. He replied, “Yes, Your Honor” when Torres sked him if he reviewed the charges against him.ĭadan, 34, is part of the Dadan Law Firm, which operates out of three cities: Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach and Vero Beach. Nauta, who sat at the defense table between his two lawyers, spoke only once in court.
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and his new Florida-based attorney Sasha Dadan.ĭuring a brief hearing before Torres in a downtown Miami federal courtroom, Nauta through his lawyers requested a jury trial both attorneys said they would represent him through the trial. Thursday amid a phalanx of reporters and in the company of his Washington, D.C.-based attorney Stanley Woodward Jr. He also had not retained a South Florida area lawyer to represent him as local court rules require. But Trump’s only co-defendant in the case failed to appear because his flight out of Newark, New Jersey, was canceled. Magistrate Edwin Torres to appear in Miami June 27 with a local lawyer to represent him in court. Waltine Nauta, 40, had been expected by Chief U.S. Donald Trump’s personal valet finally appeared in a Miami federal court on Thursday morning, with his newly hired Florida-based lawyer, and pleaded not guilty to five charges involving retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
