Feds Investigate Mar-A-Lago Aides On Moving Docs

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe. Federal officials have expressed concern about whether Mr. Trump took documents on flights as he traveled from Mar-a-Lago to his other properties in New York and New Jersey.

Mr. Nauta, a former military valet who went to work at Mar-a-Lago after Mr. Trump left the White House, was seen on surveillance footage moving boxes from a storage room before and after investigators issued a subpoena in May seeking the documents’ return, the people said. Mr. Nauta told investigators that he did so at Mr. Trump’s request, one of the people said.

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Investigators spoke to at least two Trump aides before @FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and have sought to talk to them again in recent weeks, as DOJ examines possible obstruction of its efforts to retrieve hundreds of government documents. W/⁦@learyreports⁩ https://t.co/g3Rps7xtEc

— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) October 14, 2022

Federal investigators spoke to at least two Trump aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, months before the FBI searched his resort, and sought to talk to them again in recent weeks. @sgurman & @learyreports https://t.co/xx40AfldUt

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 14, 2022