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Former
Mar-a-Lago
valet
Brian
Butler
came
forward
to
reveal
being
a
source
for
the
indictment
against
Donald
Trump
and
why
he
feels
he
is
unfit
for
office.
On
Monday
night
(March
11),
CNN
aired
an
exclusive
interview
with
Brian
Butler,
a
former
valet
at
the
Mar-a-Lago
estate
of
former
president
Donald
Trump
in
South
Florida.
Butler
spoke
about
his
role
as
the
key
source
of
information
for
Special
Counsel
Jack
Smith’s
indictment
of
Trump,
saying
that
his
former
boss
is
unfit
to
be
president
again.
Butler,
who’s
referred
to
as
“Trump
Employee
5”
in
the
indictment,
worked
at
the
estate
as
a
club
valet,
manager,
and
chauffeur
along
with
valet
Walt
Nauta
and
property
manager
Carlos
De
Oliveira
(Both
men
are
currently
facing
criminal
charges
along
with
Trump).
Butler
spoke
to
CNN’s
Kaitlin
Collins
about
Trump
sharing
classified
information
about
submarines
with
Australian
billionaire
Anthony
Pratt,
and
how
Pratt
repeated
that
information
to
his
chief-of-staff
as
Butler
was
driving
them.
He
also
told
Collins
he
had
no
idea
he
was
helping
to
move
sensitive
information.
“For
me,
I’m
just
thinking,
eh,
the
former
president,
he
has
a
lot
of
stuff
he
likes
to
lug
around
with
him,”
Butler
said,
referring
to
moving
the
“10
to
15”
white
bankers
boxes
of
information
stored
in
various
places
at
Mar-a-Lago
which
Smith
cites
in
the
indictment.
Collins
asked
Butler
if
he
felt
Trump
was
a
security
risk,
to
which
Butler
responded:
“I
personally
would
just
say
I
just
don’t
believe
that
he
should
be
a
presidential
candidate
at
this
time.
I
think
it’s
time
to
move
on.”
When
pressed
on
if
he
was
“concerned”,
the
41-year-old
replied,
“Yeah,
absolutely.
I
think
we
can
do
better.”
Butler
also
criticized
Trump’s
defense
in
the
case
as
“bogus”.
“To
me,
you
have
the
‘law
and
order’
president
attacking
agents,
the
special
counsel
on
almost
a
daily
basis,
when
these
people
are
just
taking
their
sworn
oath—they
took
a
sworn
oath
to
basically
follow
the
laws
of
this
country.
And
now
you
have
somebody
attacking
them.
I
don’t
think
that’s
right.”
Butler
also
spoke
about
the
end
of
his
and
De
Oliveira’s
20-year
friendship,
blaming
Trump
for
that
division.
“Nobody
should
have
to
go
through
that.
And
for
him
(Trump)
to
get
up
there
all
the
time
and
say
the
things
he
says
about
this
being
a
witch
hunt
and
everything.
…
He
just
can’t
take
responsibility
for
anything,”
he
said.
