'This is not a witch hunt': Takeaways from CNN's sit-down with ex-Trump employee who unwittingly moved classified docs | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "De Oliveira offered Butler, who had left his job at Mar-a-Lago in late 2022, potential face time with Trump for a golf tournament.
51% : Here are the takeaways from CNN's interview with Butler:The boxes were going out as the FBI was coming inButler described how in June 2022 he helped Walt Nauta, Trump's body man and another co-defendant in the case, move boxes from Mar-a-Lago to the airport as Trump prepared to depart for his resort in New Jersey for the summer.
47% : Butler said he was helping to move the boxes to the airport at the same time Trump was greeting federal investigators at his property in June 2022, two months before the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago and a year before Trump was indicted by special counsel Jack Smith over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
46% : He received a call from Nauta, he said, with a question about his friend's loyalty to Trump.
46% : Less than 30 minutes later, Butler recalled, De Oliveira received a call from Trump, who told him he would get an attorney.
44% : Butler recalled De Olievra telling him: "'Oh, let me get you tickets,' or, 'I'm sure the boss would love to see you.'"'This is not a witch hunt'While he worked for Trump for two decades, Butler said he would now view him "unfavorably" and did not think he should be running for president again.
43% : Butler says he saw Trump as he was going in to meet his attorney, Evan Corcoran, and a group of people he would later realize were FBI agents.
40% : That was happening at the same time, Butler says, that federal investigators were visiting Trump to discuss returning the classified material in the former president's possession.
24% : CNN --Brian Butler, a former Mar-a-Lago worker referenced as "Trump Employee Number 5" in the classified documents indictment of Donald Trump, spoke exclusively with CNN on Monday about what he saw at the former president's private club and the subsequent fallout after a search there by federal investigators.
21% : Butler told CNN that he hasn't spoken to his onetime best friend - Carlos De Oliveira, who is one of Trump's co-defendants - since the indictment, and he explained why he does not think Trump, his boss of 20 years, should be elected president again.

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