Trump aide Walt Nauta also indicted in classified documents case

Walt Nauta, an aide to Donald Trump, has been indicted on federal criminal charges connected to the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents, Trump said Friday.

In a post to his social media website Friday, Trump wrote that he'd "learned" that the Nauta would be indicted by the Department of Justice.

Nauta, Trump's butler and body man — whose legal bills are being paid by a Trump political organization — had come under scrutiny by investigators over his shifting accounts of whether he moved boxes of documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida at his urging.

An attorney for Nauta declined to comment to NBC News about Trump's post.

Trump's claim that Nauta had been indicted was the latest in a flurry of developments cascading from the history-making news Thursday night that a federal grand jury had indicted the former president on seven criminal charges in connection with his mishandling of classified documents that were discovered last year at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The indictment remains secret.