Walt Nauta, a U.S. Navy veteran who has served as an aide to Donald Trump in the White House and at his Palm Beach estate, was unable to appear in Miami federal court Tuesday for his arraignment in the Trump documents case because his flight from the Northeast was canceled due to bad weather.
Even if Nauta had shown up for his arraignment, he would not have been able to enter an expected not-guilty plea because he has not hired a local defense attorney, which is required in the Southern District of Florida. Nauta’s Washington, D.C., attorney, Stanley Woodward, told Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres that his client expects to hire a local lawyer by next week.
Torres then reset Nauta’s arraignment for July 6, in Miami federal court.
