The Ministry of Justice has moved to drop the prosecution of the government of two assistants from Donald Trump who are being charged in the same classified document case that the president once provided.
The move, set out in a court that was by the defendants, comes days after Trump had fired more than a dozen public prosecutors on Doj who were involved in the persecution of former special counselor of Trump Jack Smith last year.
Smith moved to drop both the case of January 6 against Trump in Washington, DC and the classified document case after Trump's election profit. He quoted Doj guidance in the prosecuting of a sitting president.
A Court of Appeal accepted his request to drop the classified document case against Trump.
Nevertheless, the DOJ's case continued against two Trump assistants who were accused with Trump – even while Oude Valet Walt Nauta Trump followed to the White House.
Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon had rejected the case against Trump and agreed with lawyers from the defense that the appointment of Smith was unconstitutional. Doj stopped addressing that decision after the elections, but continued the prosecution of the assistants.
“The United States of America voluntarily takes off his profession with prejudice. The government has granted the counsel for appellees Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, who do not object to the voluntary dismissal, “wrote officers of justice.
The document of nine pages signed by the American lawyer Hayden P. O'Byrne gave no reason to drop the case.
A replacement indictment in July accused Trump, Nauta and the Oliveira of conspiracy to obstruct justice, to withhold and hide documents and make false statements. Trump was accused of keeping national security documents of the White House in his Mar-A-Lago Club.
The Ministry of Justice has issued a court to drop the case against the old Trump assistant Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira. Both were Trump Codefendanten in the classified document case
Nauta is his old valet that Trump's Marine 'Body Man' was in the White House. The Oliveira was hired in 2022 as the club's real estate manager.
The indictment stated a series of times that Nauta and others reportedly moved classified material that was stored in boxes around the club.
In one case, in 2021, Nauta boxes found their contents on the floor of a storage space, according to the indictment.
“I opened the door and found this …” He wrote an employee with an image attached. “Oh no oh no,” the employee wrote back.
Doj dropped his appeal in the case after Donald Trump won the elections
Carlos de Oliveira, center, an employee of the Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate, lets a court appear at lawyer John Irving, left, in James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building, Monday 31 July 2023, in Miami in Miami
But the indictment says that Nauta has made 'false and misleading' statements to researchers when asked about the boxes.
Days before Trump took office, lawyers for Nauta and the Oliveira argued that Smith's final report on the classified document case and that the decisions behind it should not be made public, for fear that it could harm their clients.
After the courts have put that report on hold, DOJ released a single part of Smith's report that accused Trump -who was aware of cheating on the US and hindering an official procedure.
Trump has long since called him a 'witch hunt', and during his first days in office it has been busy purifying civil servants he accuses that he is involved in the 'armament' of the government.
