‘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)

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago co-defendant and valet Walt Nauta led the former president to believe he was out for a jog when, in fact, he was being interviewed by FBI special agents, a newly unsealed transcript of his voluntary May 26, 2022, sit-down revealed.

The transcript, which was filed Thursday with FBI interviewers’ names redacted two days after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon reversed herself on naming government witnesses, began with the feds attempting to lighten the moods of Nauta and his lawyer with references to “How I Met Your Mother” and, a short time later, actor Steven Seagal’s film “Under Siege.”

Next, the agents probed why Nauta decided to work for Trump in the White House instead of re-enlisting, characterizing it as “An offer you [Nauta] couldn’t refuse,” possibly a reference to “The Godfather.”

“Yeah. It’s not often a former President calls you and say, hey you want to come work for me?” Nauta said, confirming he was a “culinary specialist.”

“I’ll be honest with — I don’t know if it’s just because I’m a product of my generation, but I was thinking maybe a Navy chef working for directly for the President, like is he really a Chef, because I kept thinking Under Siege,” Special Agent 1 said.

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