Former Mar-a-Lago worker describes moving materials in Trump classified docs case
Brian Butler recalled helping Trump aide Walt Nauta load about 10 to 15 boxes onto the former president's plane two months before the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago.
A man who says he worked at Mar-a-Lago is going public with his recollection of events leading up to the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence over the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
In a televised interview with CNN, Brian Butler said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta load about 10 to 15 boxes onto Trump's plane at the West Palm Beach airport near his resort in June 2022, when representatives from the Justice Department were meeting with Trump and his attorneys about unreturned classified material.
Butler, whom CNN identified as “Trump Employee 5” in an indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith, said in the interview that aired Monday that the boxes were “the boxes that were in the indictment, the white banker’s boxes,” referring to photos in the federal indictment.
Butler, who told CNN that he had worked at Trump’s Florida resort for two decades, declined a request for comment Monday. NBC News has not independently confirmed Butler’s identity as “Trump Employee 5,” one of the unnamed employees in the indictment.
Boxes of records being stored on the stage in the White and Gold Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in an image in the indictment against former President Donald Trump.Justice Department via APButler said in the interview that he was unaware that potentially classified material were in the boxes.
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