Criminal proceedings dropped against Trump co-defendants in records case

Walt Nauta watches as President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office (Ben Curtis/AP)

The US Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril they could have faced.

Mr Trump’s valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were both charged with conspiring with the president to obstruct an FBI investigation into the hoarding of classified documents that Mr Trump took with him when he left the White House after his first term.