‘Nothing like that happened here’: Jack Smith rakes Trump valet’s claim of unlawful FBI search at Mar-a-Lago

Left: Former President Donald Trump

Left: Former President Donald Trump’s butler, Walt Nauta, at the civil fraud case against Donald Trump at the NYS Supreme Courthouse on October 24, 2023 in New York City. Siegfried Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx 2023 10/24/23. Right: Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

“Nothing like that happened here.”

That declaration from special counsel Jack Smith colored the entirety of his response to Donald Trump valet Walt Nauta’s claim that searches done at Mar-a-Lago to unearth evidence in the espionage case against the former president and his co-defendants were unconstitutional.

As Law&Crime recently reported, Nauta — one of Trump’s two co-defendants; the other is Mar-a-Lago property maintenance head Carlos de Oliveira— argues the warranted searches conducted at the Florida property were improper and that certain boxes investigators came away with in their search should be suppressed under unlawful search and seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.

Nauta claims the FBI affidavits lacked sufficient probable cause and he also questioned whether the judge who signed the warrants to start made the correct “independent determination” about the level of sensitivity or threat to national security the contents of the boxes at Trump’s club and private residence may contain.

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