An attorney for a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case claimed a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official attempted to pressure him “to cooperate” or potentially lose a recommendation to become a judge, prompting a DOJ prosecutor to call his claims a “fantasy.”
The incident prompted the federal judge in the case, Aileen Cannon, to tell the prosecutor to “calm down.”
Stanley Woodward, the lawyer for Walt Nauta, previously filed court papers claiming that DOJ official Jay Bratt in an August 2022 meeting tried to pressure him into convincing Mr. Nauta, a valet for the former president, into cooperating by threatening to put pressure on his judgeship nomination. During a court hearing on Wednesday, Mr. Woodward again brought up that allegation….
