FBI notes show secret documents co-defendant would be pardoned under another Trump presidency: report

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — who is presiding over Donald Trump’s secret documents case at Mar-a-Lago — heard arguments from Trump’s co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to have their federal charges dismissed.

According to ABC News, the Trump-appointed judge “did not immediately rule on any of the motions.”

On Monday, CNN reported that Nauta — who is also Trump’s valet — “was told that if he were accused of lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him if he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from a interview with a witness in the federal investigation into classified documents.”

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Nauta was accused of helping the former president obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. He pleaded guilty.

According to CNN: “A redacted summary of the November 2022 interview given to the FBI by the witness — identified as ‘Person 16’ and described as someone who worked in the Trump White House — was made public in recently un- sealed court files in criminal court. case Monday.”

The news outlet reports that the summary of the interview reads as follows: “NAUTA was told by FPOTUS (former President of the United States) people that his investigation was going nowhere, that it was politically motivated and ‘much ado about nothing.’

The summary continues: “NAUTA was also told that even if he is charged with lying to the FBI, FPOTUS will pardon him in 2024.”

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Additionally, CNN reports, “The summary also indicated that the witness declined to record the interview, saying it would ‘put him at a much greater risk in the Trump world.’

CNN’s full report can be found here.