“Trump Employee 5” speaks out
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | So who exactly is Trump employee number five and why in the world should you care? |
| 0:38.0 | I'll tell you tonight on Laura Coates Live. I swear you know, you know, reading these indictments sometimes requires a kind of a key code between the redactions and unnamed people I mean you really |
| 0:54.9 | need a glossary do you not well tonight one person has made a little bit easier by |
| 1:00.0 | stepping into the spotlight he is the mystery man referred to as Trump employee number five, |
| 1:06.0 | and Jack Smith classified documents indictment. |
| 1:09.3 | He worked behind the scenes at Marlago for two decades. |
| 1:12.2 | And now he is speaking out for the first time in a |
| 1:14.9 | CNN exclusive. Now let me catch everybody up for a second on who this Brian |
| 1:19.0 | Butler is. He has already given testimony to federal investigators. |
| 1:23.2 | And tonight, he told Caitlin Collins |
| 1:25.5 | that back in June of 2022, he helped Trump's bodyman, |
| 1:30.2 | Walt Nada, deliver boxes of classified information from Marlago to Trump's plane. |
| 1:37.0 | Now apparently he had no idea what was inside of these boxes. I mean totally oblivious |
| 1:41.8 | according to him. But wait, because there's more. |
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