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☆ Trump’s co-defendants set to enter pleas on new charges in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Ft. Pierce, Florida CNN —A Mar-a-Lago property manager and former President Donald Trump’s personal aide are set to be arraigned Thursday morning in Fort Pierce, Florida, on new charges brought by the special counsel in the case regarding the mishandling of classified documents. Carlos De Oliveira, the Florida property manager, and Trump’s body-man Walt Nauta have been charged with multiple offenses related to Trump’s allegedly unlawful retention of documents after leaving office, including classified material. Nauta, who was charged alongside Trump earlier this summer, pleaded not guilty to the charges he faced in the original indictment. The charges Nauta and De Oliveira face include making false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing documents. The indictment also alleges that Nauta and De Oliveira had asked an employee if they could delete security footage at Mar-a-Lago.

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☆ Third co-defendant in Trump documents case has arraignment delayed again
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The newest defendant in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case failed to enter a plea in court Thursday due to an issue with his local counsel, NBC News reported. Walt Nauta, Trump's valet, pleaded not guilty to the latest charges against him during the hearing, according to NBC. Thursday's scheduled arraignment in special counsel Jack Smith's case stemmed from a new batch of charges filed in a superseding indictment last month. Trump, who was also hit with additional charges in the superseding indictment, has already pleaded not guilty. The following month, Smith brought a superseding indictment that added three new counts against Trump.

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☆ Donald Trump's aides set to enter pleas in US classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Jack Queen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets the crowd during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. Nauta moved boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago to hide them from Trump's lawyer and federal investigators, according to prosecutors. In the documents case, Nauta has pleaded not guilty but must be arraigned on additional counts filed in a July superseding indictment. Trump pleaded not guilty to the new charges in a court filing and will not appear in-person Thursday. Trump has denied wrongdoing in Georgia involving an investigation into his efforts to reverse his election loss in that state.

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☆ Trump and Longtime Aide Plead Not Guilty to New Charges in Documents Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump and an employee, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to additional criminal charges in the case accusing the former president of illegally holding onto secret national security documents after leaving office and conspiring to obstruct the government’s efforts to retrieve them. The plea to the added charges was entered for Mr. Trump by one of his lawyers after an updated indictment last month that accused him of seeking to delete security footage at his Mar-a-Lago residence and club. Mr. Trump, who was first charged and arraigned in person in June, chose not to appear at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla.Last week, he signed a form forgoing his appearance and indicating that he would plead not guilty. During a 10-minute hearing Thursday, Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, told a magistrate judge that he had discussed the expanded charges with his client, who “has authorized me to enter a plea of not guilty.”Two Trump employees whom prosecutors also accused of conspiring to delete the footage, Mr. Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, were also charged in the revised indictment and appeared at the hearing.

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A defendant's right to a public trial is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Sixth Amendment. "She ignored the public trial right entirely. A public trial also has been found to implicate First Amendment rights of freedom of assembly, speech and press. Scott Berry, a federal public defender representing Spearman, declined to comment, as did a Justice Department spokesperson. LIMITED EXPERIENCEAs a judge, Cannon so far has presided over four criminal trials that resulted in jury verdicts.

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☆ Trump pleads not guilty twice in 24 hours with plea to new charges in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, pleaded not guilty to the new charges special counsel Jack Smith brought against him in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House. Last week, Smith charged Trump, who had already faced 37 criminal charges in the classified documents case, with one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. He also filed new charges against Walt Nauta, the former president’s aide, and added Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to the case. Trump and Nauta had pleaded not guilty to the initial charges earlier this summer. Trump’s co-defendants, De Oliveira and Nauta, have not indicated in court filings their plans for the arraignment.

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☆ Trump pleads not guilty to new classified documents charges, waives arraignment appearance
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former president Donald Trump arrives at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. on Thursday, August 3, 2023 after appearing at E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House. Former President Donald Trump on Friday pleaded not guilty and waived his personal appearance for an arraignment on a superseding indictment in his classified documents criminal case in Florida. Trump entered his plea and waiver in a filing in federal court, where the new indictment issued July 27 added charges for an alleged effort to destroy surveillance video of efforts to hide hundreds of classified government records he kept at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. Trump was charged in the original indictment with retaining those records after leaving the White House and conspiring to prevent their return to U.S. officials. Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta, a co-defendant in the case, were due to be arraigned on the new charges on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, appeared in court for the first time on Monday to face charges of conspiring with Mr. Trump to obstruct the government’s monthslong efforts to retrieve highly sensitive national security documents from the former president after he left office. Mr. De Oliveira did not enter a plea at his brief hearing in Federal District Court in Miami. The chief magistrate judge, Edwin G. Torres, released him on a $100,000 personal surety bond, and he was ordered to remain in the Southern District of Florida and to not have contact with any of the witnesses in the case. A slight man with gray hair, Mr. De Oliveira was met outside the courthouse by a throng of television cameras but made no public remarks. The arraignment is expected to be handled by a magistrate judge in Fort Pierce, Shaniek Mills Maynard.

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WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents will begin on May 20 next year, according to a U.S. court order on Friday. Trump's lawyers had resisted setting a date but said any trial should take place after the November 2024 U.S. presidential election, in which he is front-runner for the Republican nomination. A Trump spokesperson said the trial schedule "allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting" the criminal case. The case is one of several legal woes Trump faces as he campaigns for 2024. He said on Tuesday he had received a letter saying he is a target of a grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat.

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☆ Good news for Trump: Jurors at his classified documents trial will come from counties that overwhelmingly voted for him in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's jurors in his classified docs trial will come from a very red swatch of South Florida. The case's judge announced on Friday that the trial will start in May 2024 in Fort Pierce, Florida. US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who Trump nominated, signed an order Friday announcing that the former commander-in-chief will be on trial beginning May 24, 2024, in Fort Pierce. That's good news for Trump because Fort Pierce, in St. Lucie County, is in an overwhelmingly red area of South Florida. All eyes were on her when she was randomly selected to oversee the Justice Department's case against Trump this summer.

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☆ Trump’s Trial Is Set for the Middle of the 2024 Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s trial on charges of illegally retaining classified documents set a trial date of May 20, 2024 — splitting the difference between the government’s request to begin in December and Trump’s desire to postpone until after the 2024 election. The decision, Judge Aileen Cannon’s first significant call in the proceedings, puts the high-stakes trial after the bulk of the Republican Party’s presidential primaries. Trump is currently the dominant front-runner, and his legal obligations to be in court will overlap with his campaign schedule. Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, was randomly assigned to the case from a pool of potential judges. Trump is also facing a flurry of other legal threats, including civil and criminal trials in New York set for early next year.

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☆ Trial in Trump Documents Case Set for May 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of illegally retaining dozens of classified documents set a trial date on Friday for May 2024, taking a middle position between the government’s request to go to trial in December and Mr. Trump’s desire to push the proceeding until after the 2024 election. In her order, Judge Aileen M. Cannon said the trial was to be held in her home courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., a coastal city two-and-a-half hours north of Miami that will draw its jury pool from several counties that Mr. Trump won handily in his two previous presidential campaigns. Judge Cannon also laid out a calendar of hearings, throughout the remainder of this year and into next year, including those concerning the handling of the classified material at the heart of the case. The scheduling order came after a contentious hearing on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce where prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, and lawyers for Mr. Trump sparred over when to hold the trial.

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☆ An Untested Judge in the Trump Documents Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Robert Draper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a previously obscure Trump judicial appointee, has been viewed with incredulity by much of the legal establishment ever since she issued a ruling temporarily halting the federal investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents. After a conservative appeals court slapped her down, Democrats said she was either incompetent or some kind of black-robed Trojan horse for the MAGA movement. “The notion that she’s inexperienced is misplaced and ignores her exceptional résumé before taking the bench,” said Jesse Panuccio, a prominent Florida defense lawyer who served in the Trump administration as acting associate attorney general. “It also penalizes her for being a mild-mannered woman. Over two hours, she left little doubt as to whose courtroom it was.

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Trump's lawyers had resisted setting a date but said any trial should take place after the November 2024 U.S. presidential election, in which he is front-runner for the Republican nomination. A Trump spokesperson said the trial schedule "allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting" the criminal case. Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. July 15, 2023. The case is one of several legal woes Trump faces as he campaigns for 2024. He said on Tuesday he had received a letter saying he is a target of a grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat.

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☆ Judge sets Trump classified documents trial for May 2024, months before election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump's trial on charges of mishandling classified documents will begin on May 20, 2024, a federal judge ordered Friday. Trump last month pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal counts related to his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and subsequent alleged efforts to conceal them from the government. The DOJ's proposal to start the trial in December, meanwhile, "is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial," she added. Cannon's schedule laid out dozens of procedural deadlines ahead of the spring 2024 trial. The government has until Sept. 7 to turn over relevant classified documents to the defense in discovery.

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☆ Trump's lawyers to appear in Florida court in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

July 18 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers are due in court in Florida on Tuesday for a hearing in which a federal judge will begin to consider how to hold a trial of the former U.S. president on charges of mishandling classified documents without publicly exposing top secret information. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland last year. Among the logistical issues Trump's lawyers and prosecutors are expected to discuss are deadlines for prosecutors to turn over classified documents that may be used as evidence and the timing for when Trump's lawyers must notify the government whether he intends to use classified documents to defend himself against the charges. The charges against Trump include violations of the Espionage Act, which criminalizes unauthorized possession of defense information. The defense has sought an indefinite delay, citing among other factors the rigors of Trump's campaign schedule.

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All eyes are onJudge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the first pretrial hearing Tuesday in the DOJ's prosecution of Donald Trump. Since the confirmation, a least one other Cannon case made national headlines. Judge Aileen Cannon gave her confirmation testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee over Zoom on July 29, 2020. There, she prosecuted cases involving narcotics, fraud, firearms, and immigration cases, according to her Senate confirmation document. Cannon during her confirmation hearing thanked Rubio as well as fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida for their "continued support."

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☆ Here are all the ways Judge Aileen Cannon can tip the scales in Trump's favor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The judge overseeing the DOJ's case against Trump has the power to tip the scales in Trump's favor. In this case, Cannon will also determine the schedule of the trial itself. Cannon could have enormous influence over what Trump's jury will look likeThe former president also lucked out with the location of the trial. Jury selection is one of the biggest ways in which Cannon can influence the case in Trump's favor. If Cannon grants Trump's request for a trial date after the 2024 general election, that order wouldn't be immediately appealable.

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At least two grand juries in Washington have been hearing matters related to Mr. Trump’s efforts to stay in office. Two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Christopher M. Kise, briefly mentioned the new target letter at a pretrial hearing in Florida on Tuesday on the documents case. In disclosing that he had received the target letter, Mr. Trump said he was given four days to testify before a grand jury if he chooses. Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., who has pressed ahead with her own investigation of Mr. Trump and his allies, could bring charges as early as next month. If she were to proceed first, that could complicate Mr. Smith’s case.

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☆ Trump classified docs judge skeptical of push to delay trial past 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump Chris Kise (C) and Todd Blanche (R) arrive at The Alto Lee Adams Sr. United States Courthouse on July 18, 2023 in Fort Pierce, Florida. The judge presiding over Donald Trump 's federal criminal case appeared skeptical Tuesday of the former president's argument that the trial over his handling of classified documents should be delayed beyond the 2024 election, NBC News reported. Walt Nauta, personal aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump, exits Fort Pierce U.S. courthouse after a hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, July 18, 2023. Trump faces 37 criminal counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House. But on Monday, Cannon told the parties to be prepared to discuss their proposals for when the trial should start.

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☆ Trump aide Walt Nauta finally enters not-guilty plea in Mar-a-Lago document case after he spent a month trying to find a Florida lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After two previous delays, Nauta hired attorney Sasha Dadan to represent him in the case. Like Trump, Nauta didn't have to post a bond and won't face restrictions on his travel as the case moves forward. Trump directed Nauta "to move boxes of documents to conceal them from Trump's attorney, the FBI, and the grand jury," the indictment alleges. Nauta is a longtime personal aide for Trump, who remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who Trump appointed when he was president, is expected to preside over the trial itself.

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When Judge Aileen M. Cannon assumed control of the case stemming from former President Donald J. Trump’s indictment for putting national security secrets at risk, she set the stage for the trial to be held with a regional jury pool made up mostly of counties that Mr. Trump won handily in his two previous campaigns. She signaled that the trial would take place in the federal courthouse where she normally sits, in Fort Pierce, at the northern end of the Southern District of Florida. The region that feeds potential jurors to that courthouse is made up of one swing county and four others that are ruby red in their political leanings and that Mr. Trump won by substantial margins in both 2016 and 2020. “For years, it’s been a very conservative venue for plaintiffs’ lawyers,” said John Morgan, a trial lawyer who founded a large personal injury firm. Describing the various counties that feed into Fort Pierce, he said, “It is solid, solid Trump country.”

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☆ Judge Aileen Cannon wants Trump's trial over his classified documents scandal to be wrapped up by September
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A district judge in Florida wants Trump's classified documents trial to start August 14. Pre-trial motions are due at the end of July, and the trial will occur in Fort Pierce, Florida. Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge presiding over the trial, released an order saying she expects the trial to start August 14 "or as soon thereafter as the case may be called" and to last two weeks. Cannon on Tuesday asked the defense and prosecutors to file any pre-trial motions before July 24. The trial is set to be held at the courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida — the same courthouse where Cannon, 42, typically works.

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☆ Trump classified documents trial date set for Aug. 14
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Trump appears on classified document charges after a federal indictment at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse, alongside his attorney Chris Kise in Miami, Florida, U.S., June 13, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. A Florida federal judge on Tuesday scheduled the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified government documents to begin Aug. 14. If the trial date holds, it would come just over a week before the first GOP presidential debate of the campaign. In the order Tuesday, Judge Aileen Cannon told Department of Justice prosecutors and lawyers for Trump to file all pretrial motions by July 24. Cannon also ordered that all hearings in the case, including the trial, will be held in U.S. District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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☆ Luck of the draw: Trump's judge will likely be his appointee Aileen Cannon, who has already handed him victories that had legal experts scratching their heads
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Insider Staff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Judge Aileen Cannon is likely to preside over the first-ever federal trial of a former president. Cannon, 42, has been assigned to oversee Trump's trial, according to a summons cited by numerous news outlets. At that time, a magistrate judge on duty — and not Cannon — is expected to oversee the proceedings. The judge will likely decide whether to set bail, and read the charges against Trump before he enters a plea. "Judge Cannon is a great judge who I am very proud to have enthusiastically supported," Rubio told Insider through his office when asked about the connection.

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