A Donald Trump official told the FBI about being instructed by the former president to move boxes from a basement warehouse to his Mar-a-Lago residence after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena for any confidential documents on the property. Florida, according to a source familiar with the witness’s description.
The FBI also has surveillance camera footage showing an employee removing boxes from the warehouse, the source told CNN.
The witness account of Trump’s actions after the subpoena was delivered in May, along with the footage, could be key to a federal criminal investigation that is looking into a range of potential crimes, including obstruction, destruction of government records and mishandling. of confidential information.
FBI agents executed a search warrant in Mar-a-Lago in August and seized thousands of documents, including about 100 classified as confidential. The FBI also subpoenaed the Trump Organization over surveillance video of the resort.
The Trump official initially denied handling confidential documents or boxes at Mar-a-Lago, according to the source. But the FBI developed evidence that led investigators to turn to the witness, who revised his story to say that Trump had given instructions to remove the boxes, the source said.
The Washington Post was the first to report the witness’s account.
Source: CNN Brasil
I’m James Harper, a highly experienced and accomplished news writer for World Stock Market. I have been writing in the Politics section of the website for over five years, providing readers with up-to-date and insightful information about current events in politics. My work is widely read and respected by many industry professionals as well as laymen.
