FORT PIERCE, Fla. >> A lawyer for Donald Trump’s personal valet accused federal prosecutors Wednesday of targeting the valet because he refused to cooperate against the former president in the classified documents case. A prosecutor called the claim “garbage.”

Walt Nauta was charged alongside Trump last year in a federal case accusing them of conspiring to conceal boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Both men have pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers were in court Wednesday for the first time since U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for Nauta, said he believed his client was only being prosecuted because he refused to testify against Trump. Prosecutor David Harbach, a member of special counsel Jack Smith’s team, called Woodward’s argument “garbage”

— The Associated Press