Walt Nauta, a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, is asking a judge to dismiss his charges over claims the Department of Justice unfairly targeted him, according to recently unsealed court filings.
Nauta’s defense attorneys said their client’s decision to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights at one point during the initial stages of the investigation had prompted the DOJ to punish Nauta by prosecuting him, when others had engaged in the “same type of conduct” that Nauta did, the attorneys wrote.
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