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Erin Burnett OutFront

Exclusive: “Trump Employee 5” in classified docs case speaks out

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Trump Employee 5 is breaking his silence, the man who was a key witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation. Hear what he has to say about moving Trump's boxes of classified documents. Plus, a software engineer hired by Trump's campaign to find voter fraud, who he found none, warns Trump will try to overturn the election again if he doesn't win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Out front next, the breaking news, Trump employee number five, breaking his silence and we'll hear from the man who is a key witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation tonight.

0:12.7

Hear what he has to say about moving Trump's boxes of classified documents.

0:16.9

Plus, he is a software engineer hired by Trump's campaign to find voter fraud, and he found none.

0:23.8

We'll give you all the details tonight as he's warning this evening Trump will try to overturn the election again.

0:28.9

If he doesn't win, he'll be my guest this hour, and a passenger on that terrifying flight, the plummeted midair, speaking out.

0:36.2

He says bodies were flying everywhere, hitting the

0:38.0

ceiling, leaving blood like a scene from the exorcist. Let's go out front. And good evening,

0:45.8

I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, we begin with the breaking news, Trump's employee number

0:49.7

five speaking out. The man who has only been known as Trump employee number five in the classified documents

0:55.7

indictment from Jack Smith revealing his identity, explaining for the first time how he helped

1:00.6

move classified documents for Trump. His name is Brian Butler, a longtime chauffeur to Trump's family.

1:07.0

Now, Butler spent about 20 years working for Trump, and he claims it was on June 3rd, 2022,

1:12.5

when Trump's personal aid, Walt Nata, the name may be familiar, asked him if he could borrow

1:17.3

Butler's SUV to move luggage from Mara Lago to the former president's personal plane.

1:22.1

Now, that date is the same date that Trump's attorneys met with the FBI, touring a basement

1:26.6

storage room to look for documents.

1:28.6

It's the same day they signed a document saying they'd hunted for additional papers and found

1:33.3

few. And Butler telling Caitlin Collins that the luggage he moved included the white bankers boxes

1:38.8

in Jack Smith's indictment. They were the boxes that were in the indictment.

1:45.0

The white bankers boxes, that's what I remember loading.

1:49.0

And did you have any time, any idea at the time that there was potentially U.S. national security secrets in those boxes?

1:57.0

No clue. I had no clue. I mean, we were just taking them out of the escalate, piling them up.

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