Former Mar-a-Lago Employee Who Moved Boxes of Documents Tells CNN He Suspected Trump Was Up to ‘Something’

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins snagged an interview with a man previously known only as “Trump Employee #5” in the Trump federal classified documents case.

Brian Butler was a 20-year Mar-a-Lago employee who handled the car service for the former president. Butler said he and Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta were tasked with loading bankers boxes onto Trump’s plane at the same time the FBI was searching a storage area at the resort for classified documents.

COLLINS: And did you have any time, any idea at the time, that there was potentially U.S. national security secrets in those boxes?

BUTLER: No clue. Nope, I had no clue. I mean, we were just taking them out of the Escalade and piling them up. I remember they were all stacked on top of each other and then we’re lifting them up to the pilots.

COLLINS: How many boxes was it?

BUTLER: They asked me in the interview, and I believe it was 10 to 15, is what I remember.

COLLINS: “They” being the investigators?

BUTLER: Correct.

COLLINS: And when you look back on that, now, what —

BUTLER: Well, I had no clue until probably the end of June. There’s a few different things that happened that kind of opened my eyes to you know, something’s going on here.

COLLINS: So, you get that unusual request. Did you ever think to yourself, why were there so many boxes at Mar-a-Lago?

BUTLER: You know, I, for me, I’m just thinking, “Oh, the former president, he has a lot of stuff he likes to lug around with him.” I never would’ve thought it was anything like what we see —

COLLINS: Classified documents.

BUTLER: Yeah,.

Trump faces 40 felony charges in the classified documents case. Two Mar-a-Lago employees, Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, have been charged with “scheming to conceal surveillance footage from federal investigators and lying about it.” All have pleaded not guilty.

Watch the clip above via CNN.