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BumRushDaShow

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Tue Dec 12, 2023, 06:28 AM Dec 2023

Former Mar-a-Lago employee-turned-witness repeatedly contacted by Trump and associates before documents charges

Source: CNN Politics

Published 8:00 PM EST, Mon December 11, 2023


West Palm Beach, FL CNN — Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job. Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort, according to two sources and material seen by CNN.

The employee told the former president he had another business opportunity he wanted to pursue. The message later got back to the former employee that Trump thought he was a “good man.” But he wasn’t just any staffer at the club – the former employee was a witness to several episodes special counsel Jack Smith included in his federal criminal indictment charging the former president with mishandling classified documents.

He had moved several boxes for Trump and was also privy to conversations referenced in the indictment between Trump and his two co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, and Trump’s body man Walt Nauta – putting the former employee in a unique group of Mar-a-Lago staffers who could be in a position to provide valuable information to investigators.

The phone call from Trump, described to CNN by multiple people familiar with it, was part of a pattern of outreach to the former employee, who would become a key witness in the months after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and before Trump’s June indictment. Interactions included offers of legal representation by attorneys paid for by Trump and complimentary tickets to a golf tournament, as well as repeated reminders he could come back to work for Trump.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12/politics/former-mar-a-lago-employee-special-counsel-trump/index.html



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Former Mar-a-Lago employee-turned-witness repeatedly contacted by Trump and associates before documents charges (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 OP
'Outreach' to a former employee, who just happened to be a witness 70sEraVet Dec 2023 #1
Huh, who would of guess that that hornorable ex-president and his assoc. would do some thing like this. republianmushroom Dec 2023 #2

70sEraVet

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1. 'Outreach' to a former employee, who just happened to be a witness
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:07 AM
Dec 2023

"Interactions included offers of legal representation by attorneys paid for by Trump and complimentary tickets to a golf tournament, as well as repeated reminders he could come back to work for Trump."
Funny. I never had an employer offer such things to ME after I quit a job. But I guess I was never in a position to put my former employer in PRISON!

republianmushroom

(22,122 posts)
2. Huh, who would of guess that that hornorable ex-president and his assoc. would do some thing like this.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:18 AM
Dec 2023


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