Who is Walt Nauta, the other person indicted along with Trump?

Walt Nauta, the only other person to be indicted along with former President Donald J. Trump, has served as his personal assistant after previously working for him at the White House.

A native of Guam, Mr. Nauta enlisted in the military at one point and was a military aide who worked as a White House clerk while Mr. Trump was president.

White House servants have an unusual closeness to the Commander-in-Chief, encountering them in moments of vulnerability, including during meals and on foreign trips.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta forged a bond during the Trump administration, and when the term expired, Mr. Nauta retired and personally went to work for Mr. Trump.

He was one of the few members of Mr. Trump’s post-presidential office when Mr. Trump first returned to private life at his club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. There, Mr. Nauta resumed the kind of personal chores he had helped Mr. Trump with when he was president.

Mr Nauta is seen by other aides as very loyal to Mr Trump.

But he caught the government’s attention for his appearance on security camera footage from the club, subpoenaed by prosecutors, moving boxes in and out of a basement storage following a grand jury subpoena.

In interviews with government officials, the indictment alleges, he gave false testimony about whether he had moved boxes to Mr. Trump’s residence earlier this year. According to the indictment, Mr. Nauta actually brought several boxes from the storage unit to Mr. Trump’s residence at a time when National Archives officials were seeking the return of presidential materials, but he told investigators he did not .

In another memorable moment noted in the indictment, Mr. Nauta on December 7, 2021 that some boxes had fallen into the storage area and the contents were scattered all over the floor, “including a document marked ‘SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY’, indicating that the information contained in the document could only be released to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and the United States.”

Mr. Nauta texted a colleague and wrote: “I opened the door and found this…”

Prosecutors have been considering charging Mr Nauta since the fall, but are pressuring him to cooperate with their investigation. He refused.