Report: Mar-A-Lago worker provided DOJ new details in Trump docs case

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jason Johnson hosts "The Beat" on Friday, May 26 and reports on new New York Times reporting indicating a Mar-A-Lago worker helped move boxes into a storage room one day before the DOJ came looking for classified docs. Plus, Ron DeSantis facing new corruption scandal as officials in his office are accused of crossing ethical lines and pressuring Florida lobbyists for campaign cash. Elie Mystal, Hugo Lowell and Michael Steele join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	I'm Jason Johnson in for Ari Melber.
0:02.9	We start with special counsel Jack Smith closing in
0:06.5	a former president Donald Trump.
0:07.7	The New York Times reporting a Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker
0:11.5	helped move boxes into a storage room one day
0:15.2	before a DOJ official came for the classified documents.
0:19.4	The worker was reportedly helping Trump valet Walt Nauta
0:22.8	move the boxes, but did not know what was inside of them.
0:27.0	That comes from a New York Times report
0:28.5	with one anonymous source and NBC has yet to confirm that account.
0:33.0	It comes on the heels of a similar Washington Post report,
0:35.7	which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote,
0:38.0	dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers
0:40.9	before his office received the May 2022 subpoena.
0:44.5	And more shocking details from that report reveal
0:47.2	that Trump showed those classified documents to other people.
0:51.8	Quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence
0:54.3	that Trump at times kept classified documents in his office
0:57.6	in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others.
1:02.2	Trump has insisted he's done no wrong.
1:06.0	I have every right to under the presidential records act.
1:08.6	You have the presidential records act.
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