Jack Smith hammers Trump's valet co-defendant for 'numerous false factual allegations and meritless legal arguments'
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 11th, 2024, 5:58 pm
Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday asked the judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago documents case to ignore a series of false factual allegations and meritless legal arguments recently put forward by former President Donald Trumps valet Waltine Walt Nauta.
Nauta faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct, making false statements to the FBI, and withholding documents connected to an alleged scheme to delete Mar-a-Lago camera footage and conceal boxes of classified documents from a grand jury. In reply briefs, he argued the indictment should be thrown out because he was singled out via vindictive prosecution and impermissibly retaliated against because he declined to testify in front of a grand jury.
In late March, Nauta alleged he was being prosecuted in part due to government animus toward him and had been vindictively charged because of his refusal to cooperate with federal investigators. Days later, Smith fired back, calling Nautas claims meritless, flat-out false and deeply flawed, and, in any event, simply raised far too late.
The back-and-forth continued two weeks later with Nautas reply to the governments arguments. Now, once again, the special counsel is pointing out the sluggish pace and reiterating earlier arguments. In the Thursday filing and using substantially similar language to last months brief Smith blasted the defendant for waiting so late to make numerous false factual allegations and meritless legal arguments on new selective and vindictive prosecution theories.
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Full headline: Jack Smith hammers Trumps valet co-defendant for numerous false factual allegations and meritless legal arguments in fiery Mar-a-Lago brief about dilatory tactics
Link to filing (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.444.0.pdf
LiberalFighter
(51,044 posts)He better be sentenced to a long time in prison. First they need to get rid of the current judge.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)refused to cooperate with the prosecutors.
Why you want to protect TSF, I don't know, but if I were in your shoes, I would've cooperated and protected myself, not someone who doesn't give a damn about you.
republianmushroom
(13,661 posts)And with this trump puppet judge, the valet co-defendant will get what he wants.
And the country gets screwed.
markodochartaigh
(1,145 posts)is a useful legal doctrine to authoritarians.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,166 posts)He's going to federal prison for decades because he's too dumb to testify against his beloved boss.
Demobrat
(8,986 posts)Traurigkeit
(241 posts)Number One on the list of requirements