Brian Butler, a 20-year Trump employee, speaks publicly about how he was asked to help move boxes of classified information that Trump had stolen and was hiding.
Butler told CNN:
And then what happened is that Walt stayed in front of me and never went directly onto the plane. Or he is in the procession when he goes there with the leader, who is the former president. And I remember telling him that he left the club with me, I didn’t know what he had in his vehicle, but he waited for me at a nearby business and I told him I would tell him when I was leaving Mar-a-Lago. So I left Mar-a-Lago. I texted him, hey, I’m on my way. He followed me. He pulled out and stood behind me. We arrived at the airport. I ended up packing all the luggage I had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed they were the indictment boxes, the white bankers’ boxes. This is what I remember uploading.
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I had no idea. I mean, we were just carrying them out of the Escalade, piling them up. I remember they were all stacked on top of each other and then we’re lifting them up to the pilot.
Video:
Trump employee Brian Butler says he was asked to transport 10-15 boxes containing classified information that Trump stole and then tried to hide from the US government, “I had no idea. I mean, we were just taking them out of the ‘Escalade and piling them up.’ pic.twitter.com/uoOMhfHpkf
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 11, 2024
This is terrible for Trump. It’s one thing for the former president to be criminally charged, but now there are witnesses speaking on national television about how Trump tried to hide classified documents from the federal government.
Trump wants to pretend to be a normal candidate. Many in the media want to pretend that he is a normal candidate, but Donald Trump is a ticking time bomb, and it is only a matter of time before he explodes and destroys everyone and everything around him.
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