‘We need to get you sweaty’: Valet co-defendant misled Trump about going on a jog before awkward interview with FBI on Mar-a-Lago, transcript reveals

Donald Trump, Walt Nauta

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, center left, and son Eric Trump walk near the first hole during the final round of LIV Golf Miami, at Trump National Doral Golf Club, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Doral, Fla. Pictured in background center is valet Walt Nauta. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

As the government opposed the discovery aims of Donald Trump and his co-defendants “in their entirety” on Monday, the special counsel attached an exhibit to show that a former member of the Trump administration repeatedly advised the former president and those in his orbit, including his family members, that missing documents needed to be returned to the National Archives (NARA) or else an indictment would almost certainly follow.

The witness, identified only as Person 16, an individual who “had free access to FPOTUS [the former president of the United States] and the Oval Office, and was in the Oval Office daily” and attending briefings on the “handling of classified materials.” At the start of the Nov. 2, 2022, interview with the FBI, the witness insisted that the session not be recorded, as that would be a “far bigger risk for him in the Trump world.”

After telling the feds that Trump’s “declassified everything” response to February 2022 media reports about classified documents at Mar-a-Lago being returned to NARA was undercut by the fact there was “no standing declassification order,” Person 16 spoke about being aware as early as August 2020 that NARA was missing Kim Jong-un letters, an “Obama letter,” and a “Hurricane map.”

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