Walt Nauta told the FBI that he did not have any knowledge that boxes he helped moved at Mar-a-Lago contained classified material, according to a transcript.
Walt Nauta was interviewed by the FBI in May 2022 and indicted a year later for allegedly obstructing justice, conspiring to hide classified material, and lying to federal investigators during the May interview.
Nauta, according to his indictment, transported boxes to a truck for delivery to the National Archives in January 2022. Nauta denied to the FBI that he knew from where the boxes had originated and how they were stored. Smith has said that text messages and other evidence suggest otherwise. “Did you look inside any of those boxes?” an FBI agent asked of boxes on Trump’s golf course property.“Were you aware of any boxes of … government documents in the residence?” an FBI agent asked.Later in the interview, an agent asked, “Have you seen anything with classified markings?”At one point, Nauta said he did look in boxes that contained the former president’s personal items.
Nauta previously worked at Mar-a-Lago as a valet in the Navy, and the FBI drew on that to impress upon him the seriousness of missing classified material. “I opened the door and found this…,” Nauta wrote in the message, though it is unclear if Nauta realized what the documents were.
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