Aide tells FBI Trump ordered boxes moved at Mar-a-Lago - report - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A erstwhile worker of Donald Trump told national agents the erstwhile president asked that boxes of records beryllium moved wrong his Florida residence aft receiving a authorities subpoena demanding their return, according to a Washington Post report.

The grounds of the cardinal witness, coupled with surveillance footage the Justice Department besides obtained, correspond immoderate of the strongest known grounds to day of imaginable obstruction of justness by the erstwhile Republican president.

The New York Times separately reported connected Wednesday that Trump adjutant Walt Nauta was captured connected information camera footage from Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach moving boxes retired of a retention country astatine the halfway of the investigation.

It was unclear whether the worker cited successful Wednesday's Washington Post study was Nauta oregon a antithetic unit member, according to the Times, which cited 3 unnamed radical acquainted with the matter.

The FBI conducted a court-approved search connected Aug. 8 astatine Mar-a-Lago, seizing much than 11,000 documents, including astir 100 marked arsenic classified.

The worker who was moving astatine Mar-a-Lago was cooperating with the Justice Department and has been interviewed aggregate times by national agents, the Post reported. The witnesser initially denied handling delicate documents and successful consequent conversations with agents admitted to moving boxes astatine Trump’s request, it added, citing radical acquainted with the situation.

The Justice Department declined to remark connected the Washington Post's report, and could not instantly beryllium reached for remark connected the New York Times article.

Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich, successful a connection connected Thursday, reiterated Trump's accusation that the August hunt was "unwarranted and unconstitutional" and accused the Justice Department of leaking to the media successful an "act of intimidation and tampering."

Budowich did not accidental whether Nauta was inactive employed by Trump. A lawyer for Nauta, a erstwhile subject adjutant who the Times said near the White House to enactment astatine Mar-a-Lago, declined to remark to the newspaper, which said Nauta was not formally cooperating with the department's probe.

In a station connected his societal media level precocious Wednesday, Trump again denied immoderate wrongdoing, posting: "There is nary 'crime' having to bash with the retention of documents astatine Mar-a-Lago."

The papers probe is 1 of respective ineligible woes Trump is facing arsenic helium considers whether to tally again for president successful 2024.

New York state's lawyer wide precocious filed a civilian suit accusing Trump and 3 of his big children of fraud and misrepresentation successful preparing fiscal statements from the household company.

The Trump Organization besides is acceptable to spell connected proceedings connected Oct. 24 connected New York authorities transgression taxation fraud charges.

In Georgia, a expansive assemblage successful Fulton County is probing efforts by Trump to overturn his 2020 statesmanlike predetermination defeat.

Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Kanishka Singh successful Washington; further reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Jonathan Oatis

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