Ex-Trump employee says ‘anybody’ could access Mar-a-Lago rooms where records were stored

A former employee of Donald Trump has alleged that “anybody” could access the rooms where the former president stored government secrets at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

In an interview on Monday with CNN, Brian Butler also described unwittingly helping Trump’s aide Walt Nauta load boxes of confidential materials that were flown away on the ex-president’s plane as federal officials met with him and his attorneys in June 2022 about his retention and handling of classified records.

“I had no clue – I mean we were just taking them out … [and] piling them up,” Butler said to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “I remember they were all stacked on top of each other, and then we’re lifting them up to the pilots.”

Butler, whom CNN reportedly identified as the “Trump Employee 5” described in a criminal indictment later filed against the former president and Nauta, said he decided to publicly speak out because voters deserved to know the truth as the presumptive Republican nominee seeks a second term in the White House in November.

“I personally would just say I just don’t believe that he should be a presidential candidate at this time,” Butler said, echoing a sentiment expressed by other former employees of Trump. “I think it’s time to move on.”

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with improperly retaining government secrets after he left the Oval Office. The charges are among more than 90 counts pending against him in a series of criminal cases that also accuse him of subverting his 2020 electoral defeat and of making hush-money payments.

Despite his denial of wrongdoing, Butler on Monday made it a point to illustrate just how unsecured the government secrets in question were at Trump’s Florida property.

“There were definitely a