someone who helped move boxes or lied to investigators. it could include tampering with witnesses and a response to that subpoena when a small batch of documents was turned over and yet 26 more boxes were found in the basement. so i would look to see multiple counts of obstruction of justice based on each of those different acts. so, danny, let s talk about venue. the action on this case to this point over the last week or so was known to be in washington, d.c. and suddenly there was this revelation of a grand jury that s been meeting in miami as well. and now that s where trump is set to appear next week, so just explain for the viewer here. does that mean a potential trial will be in miami as well? and if so, what s the difference there between south florida versus washington, d.c.? why did it go this way? the trial will be in miami, and although we may never know the strategic reasons why it seemed to begin in d.c. and end up in florida, the most likely reason is that the govern
Waltine Nauta is a member of the United States Navy and the assistant and former valet to former President Donald Trump who is accused of being Trump's "co-conspirator" in the federal indictment against Trump relating to his storing of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
asking about that. and poppy, as you noted, doj actually has evan corcoran s written and recorded notes even though he was the attorney for donald trump. normally that would be protected by the attorney-client privilege. in this case prosecutors pierced through that privilege using the crime fraud exception. prosecutors convinced the judge there could be evidence of a crime, not necessarily that corcoran participated in, in the noaa note. very rare that prosecutors get them. to the storage room for a second. remind us who was actually moving the boxes out at that key moment? yes. this is again the key storage room. walt nada. he was donald trump s valet, his body person. he originally told investigators that, well, i don t know anything about classified documents. turned out later he took that back and said, actually, because he was caught on surveillance, i did move boxes in and out of this storage room. we know that because of
special counsel, jack smith, has obtained, get this, it recording, a recording in which trump, quote, acknowledges he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. the tape from a july 2021 meeting of the ex presidents bedminster, new jersey golf club indicates trump understood he retained classified material after leaving the white house. the ex presidents recorded comments also suggested he would like to share the information, but he s aware of limitations on his ability post presidency to discuss classified records. that s contrary to his assertions that he could automatically declassify any documents. and the federal prosecutors have, quote, witnesses have asked witnesses about the recording and the document before a federal grand jury. as well as questioning chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. now, this comes in the wake of another new report about an employee at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate in florida, who helped move boxe
locations around the property including trump s office, which held some of the most highly classified stuff. the guardian reports it s not clear at this moment who waved off corcoran from searching other locations at mar-a-lago, according to an account of his testimony to the grand jury. corcoran did not respond to a request for comment. a trump spokesperson called the report, quote, completely false and rooted in pure fantasy. we ve got another headline coming out of mar-a-lago, a busy day there. an employee at the club who admitted helping move boxes of documents into a storage room ahead of a doj visit last year has now been questioned by federal investigators about his conduct in the weeks after the incident. that s according to a new report in the washington post. the employee reportedly claimed not to know what he was moving at the time. but weeks later the paper reports the same employee