A longtime aide to the former US president Donald Trump Caught on surveillance camera footage moving boxes from a storage room at Trump’s residence in Florida, before and after the Justice Department issued a subpoena demanding the return of all classified documents in the former president’s possession. This is what three sources familiar with the details told The New York Times.
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The footage shows Walt Nauta, a former military aide who worked at the White House and left with Trump to work at his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, moving boxes around various points in the storage area, which later became the focus of the investigation. As mentioned, the investigation focused on whether the former president improperly retained national security records after he left the White House and obstructed repeated attempts by the administration to retrieve them.
As part of the investigation, the Department of Justice interviewed Nauta several times – before the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, and after a collection of more than 11,000 documents were found there. According to the report, Nauta has answered questions from federal investigators, although he is not officially cooperating with the government’s investigation.
Trump’s spokesman, Taylor Budovich, accused the Biden administration of “contacting the media through targeted leaks in an overt and illegal act of harassment and manipulation.”
Alongside this, the Washington Post reported last week that Trump ordered an employee to be questioned by the FBI to move boxes at Mar-a-Lago. It’s unclear if that employee was a nanny, and a person familiar with the case and Trump’s role said it could be another employee.