Ms. Dadan has additionally been energetic in Republican politics in recent times, mounting an unsuccessful marketing campaign for the Florida Home in 2018.
The indictment towards Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta was filed by the workplace of the particular counsel Jack Smith. It describes how Mr. Nauta repeatedly moved containers at Mr. Trump’s request out and in of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, the previous president’s non-public membership and residence in Florida, throughout a vital interval: the weeks between the issuance of a subpoena in Could 2022 demanding the return of all categorized paperwork in Mr. Trump’s possession and a go to to Mar-a-Lago quickly after by federal prosecutors looking for to implement the subpoena and gather any related supplies.
In keeping with the indictment, Mr. Nauta eliminated 64 containers from the storage room throughout these weeks however solely introduced again about 30, with the remainder unaccounted for. All of this occurred, the indictment says, earlier than one among Mr. Trump’s attorneys, M. Evan Corcoran, started to kind by way of the fabric saved within the storage room in an effort to seek out any remaining categorized materials and switch it over to the federal government.
Mr. Nauta’s arraignment — a short and largely ceremonial process — had not one of the circuslike ambiance that marked Mr. Trump’s personal arraignment in Miami. The listening to in entrance of Justice of the Peace Decide Edwin G. Torres lasted about 10 minutes as Mr. Woodward did little greater than enter Mr. Nauta’s plea and request a jury trial.
Mr. Nauta, who served as one among Mr. Trump’s White Home valets earlier than going to work for him at Mar-a-Lago, is now within the delicate place of being each the previous president’s co-defendant in a high-stakes federal prosecution and one among his most intimate workers. Complicating issues, Mr. Trump is beneath a court docket order to not talk about the info of the indictment with greater than 80 folks concerned within the case — together with Mr. Nauta, whose job is to shadow the previous president all over the place he goes and to cater to his varied whims and wishes.