{"id":1990180,"date":"2023-08-03T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-to-boot-mar-a-lago-lawyer-from-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:57:59","slug":"special-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-to-boot-mar-a-lago-lawyer-from-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-to-boot-mar-a-lago-lawyer-from-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Counsel Jack Smith seeks to remove Mar-a-Lago lawyer from trial, citing &#8216;conflicting loyalties&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspecial-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-to-boot-mar-a-lago-lawyer-from-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Special Counsel\u200c Jack Smith Attempts to Boot Mar-a-Lago\u2062 Lawyer from Trial, Claiming &#8216;Divided Loyalties&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Special\u2064 counsel Jack Smith is seeking to disqualify an attorney representing a Donald Trump \u2063ally \u200dwho \u2062faces charges along with\u200c the former president in\u200b the Justice Department\u2019s classified documents case.<\/p>\n<p>Walt Nauta, a Trump employee who was charged with crimes related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, is being represented by attorney Stanley Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has \u200basked for a hearing with U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, claiming Woodward might have conflicts of\u2062 interest in the \u200bcase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/03\/stanley-woodward-conflicts-interest-trump-documents-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> \u2062 reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday legal filing, the department said Woodward <strong>\u201chas represented at \u2063least seven\u2063 other individuals who have been questioned in connection with the investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Axios, Woodward is representing two other Trump employees and has advised another who \u2063the DOJ believes has information that could <strong>\u201cincriminate\u201d Nauta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll three of \u200bthese witnesses may be witnesses for the government at trial, raising the possibility that Mr. Woodward might\u200b be \u200din the position\u2062 of cross-examining\u200d past or current clients,\u201d the filing states.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c DOJ argued that a \u200dhearing in regard \u2063to \u200cdisqualifying Woodward \u200bis <strong>\u201cappropriate given that an attorney who cross-examines a former or\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-to-boot-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-maggie-haberman-attacks-president-trump-over-white-house-reporters-having-to-work-early-on-christmas-eve\/\" title=\"NY Times\u2019 Maggie Haberman Attacks President Trump Over White House Reporters Having to Work Early on Christmas Eve\">mar-a-lago<\/a>-lawyer-from-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Special Counsel Jack Smith seeks to remove Mar-a-Lago lawyer from trial, citing &#8216;conflicting loyalties&#8217;.&#8221;>present client inherently encounters divided loyalties<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not known if Cannon will hear the government\u2019s case on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nauta, Trump\u2019s valet, was charged alongside Trump in June. Last week, the\u2063 DOJ announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-charges-unveiled-trump-mar-lago-documents-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new charges<\/a> against them and\u00a0Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>De Oliveira \u2062and Nauta\u200c reportedly moved boxes at Mar-a-Lago last summer. The DOJ has also accused the \u2064men of asking another worker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attacks-biden-over-bribery-allegations-in-first-ad-since-new-charges\/\" title=\"Trump's latest ad targets Biden for bribery allegations.\">delete security footage<\/a> so that \u2063a federal \u2064grand jury could not see it.<\/p>\n<p>De Oliveira faces four charges, \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-harvard-professor-sentenced-fined-for-lying-about-china-ties\/\" title=\"Ex-Harvard Professor Sentenced, Fined for Lying About China Ties\">including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a><\/a> and conspiracy to obstruct justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/07\/31\/carlos-de-oliveira-arraignment-trump-employee-classified-documents-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> \u2063reported. Nauta now faces six similar charges, according to another \u200bAxios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/07\/06\/walt-nauta-arraignment-trump-classified-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nauta has pleaded not guilty, while \u200cDe Oliveira has not yet entered a plea.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was initially \u2063charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-indictment-unsealed-worse-initially-reported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 counts<\/a> \u2062 in \u200cthe case, but that was upped to 40 \u2063last week.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements, and various crimes related to the mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/special-counsel-jack-smith-attempts-boot-mar-lago-lawyer-trial-claiming-divided-loyalties\/\">Special Counsel Jack Smith Attempts\u2063 to Boot Mar-a-Lago Lawyer from Trial, Claiming &#8216;Divided Loyalties&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Smith, the special counsel, aims to disqualify an attorney representing a Donald Trump ally charged in the Justice Department&#8217;s classified documents case. Walt Nauta, a Trump employee accused of mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, is currently being defended by said attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1990181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}