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Showing Original Post only (View all)If you missed it - MAL diet coke goffer who ratted trump out.. [View all]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/key-mar-a-lago-witness-said-to-be-former-white-house-employee/ar-AA12W6eVWalt Nauta is the witness in question, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The 39-year-old worked as a valet for Trump in the Oval Office suite, according to former White House staffers, and served as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago, Trumps residence and private club in Florida.
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When FBI agents first interviewed Nauta, he denied any role in moving boxes or sensitive documents, the people familiar with the situation said in interviews before Nautas name became public. But as investigators gathered more evidence, they questioned him a second time and he told a starkly different story that Trump instructed him to move the boxes, these people said.
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Nauta is originally from Guam, according to public records. He enlisted in the Navy and eventually became a cook in the White House mess, a small dining facility run by the Navy in the basement of the West Wing. In 2013, he entered a military culinary competition, part of a team representing presidential food service.
Not long after Trump took office, Nauta left the mess to become one of Trumps valets, spending some of his workday in a small passageway that connects the West Wing to a private dining room. From there, he had access to a small refrigerator stocked with Diet Cokes, which he brought to the president in the Oval Office when Trump pressed a call button on his desk, said a former White House staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss activities inside the White House.
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The former staffer described Nauta as friendly and pleasant to Oval Office visitors. In September 2020, Nauta was promoted to senior chief petty officer, a significant career advancement. When Trump left the White House, Nauta decided to join him at Mar-a-Lago. Campaign finance records show that Nauta was placed on the payroll of a Trump political action committee, Save America, in 2021. He was on payroll as recently as August, making $5,227.81 a paycheck, or about $135,000 a year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
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If you missed it - MAL diet coke goffer who ratted trump out.. [View all]
Laura PourMeADrink
Oct 2022
OP
I'm pretty sure it's a fact you don't know what he was asked or what his original response was
Major Nikon
Oct 2022
#28
There is a video that proves he lied...and ask Martha Stewart about that sort of thing.
Demsrule86
Oct 2022
#27
Hiding the fed's boxes from the feds is political action, you gotta give them that /nt
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2022
#8
Diet coke rats out the orange ferret. Imagine how nasty Trump was to Mr. Nauta.
sarcasmo
Oct 2022
#36