Meanwhile, the Justice Department last week proposed a Dec. He is regularly by Trump’s side, even traveling in Trump’s motorcade to the Miami courthouse for their appearance earlier this month and accompanying him afterwards to a stop at the city’s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president. Nauta is a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago. That, prosecutors said, resulted in a false representation to the Justice Department that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been done and that all documents responsive to a subpoena had been returned. Prosecutors allege that Nauta, at the former president’s direction, moved boxes of documents bearing classification markings so that they would not be found by a Trump lawyer who was tasked with searching the home for classified records to be returned to the government. The indictment accuses Nauta of conspiring with Trump to conceal records that he had taken with him from the White House. It was unclear if Nauta would appear in person at his arraignment because he’s not required to be there. Nauta’s arraignment was postponed to give him time to find a Florida-based lawyer. Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. In January, a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist burned a copy of the Quran near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, also triggering outrage in the Muslim world.Walt Nauta was charged earlier this month alongside Trump in a 38-count indictment filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned what it said was a "flagrant attack on human rights, values of tolerance, acceptance of others, democracy and peaceful coexistence among followers of all religions".įurther afield, Afghanistan's Taliban government, which enforces a strict interpretation of the Quran and Islamic law, also reacted angrily, labelling the Quran burning an act of "utter contempt towards this noble religion". Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed movement Hezbollah charged the Swedish authorities were "complicit in the crime". The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation called for "effective measures to prevent a recurrence". Syria's government condemned the "disgraceful act" on one of the holiest days for Muslims "by an extremist with the permission and consent of the Swedish government". "Faced with these repeated provocations, committed under the complacent gaze of the Swedish government", Morocco summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires in Rabat and recalled its ambassador, it added. "This new offensive and irresponsible act disregards the feelings of more than a billion Muslims, at this sacred time of the great pilgrimage to Mecca and the blessed feast of Eid al-Adha," the kingdom said. The Quran burning was also condemned by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and by Morocco, which recalled its ambassador to Stockholm. Kuwait called for perpetrators of such "hostile acts" to be brought to justice and "prevented from using the principle of freedoms as a ploy to justify hostility against Islam or any holy faith". United Arab Emirates presidential adviser Anwar Gargash tweeted that the West "must realise that its value system. The Cairo-based Arab League branded it an "assault on the core of our Islamic faith". "These hateful and repeated acts cannot be accepted with any justification," the Saudi foreign ministry said.Įgypt, the Arab world's most populous country, called the Quran burning a "disgraceful act provoking the feelings of Muslims" as they mark Eid. Saudi Arabia, which hosted around 1.8 million Muslim pilgrims for the hajj that ended on Wednesday, also denounced the Quran burning. Dhaka strongly condemns burning of Quran outside Mosque in Sweden
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