Report: “Nearly Everyone” Who Works at Mar-a-Lago Has Been Subpoenaed by the Prosecutors Investigating Trump

Donald Trump started the week on trial for rape and as the subject of multiple criminal investigations— and somehow ended the week in what very much appears to be an even more perilous legal situation.

On Thursday, the jury that will decide whether to find the ex-president liable for allegedly raping writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-’90s heard him double down on the right to sexual assault people and, bizarrely, tell Carroll’s lawyer she wouldn’t be a “choice” of his. Meanwhile, the federal investigation into his handling of classified documents—and possible attempt to obstruct justice— is said to be “intensifying,” which is presumably not a happy development in Palm Beach.

The New York Times reports that, according to people familiar with the matter, prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith have not only subpoenaed “nearly everyone who works at Mar-a-Lago,” but have also “obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for [Trump]” at the private resort, as they ramp up their effort “to determine whether Mr. Trump ordered boxes containing sensitive material moved out of a storage room there as the government sought to recover it last year.” The witness in question has reportedly provided investigators “with a picture of the storage room where the material had been held,” though little else is known about what other information might have been relayed. The cooperation of an insider, whose identity has not been revealed, is said to possibly be a “significant step” in Smith’s investigation. In addition, Smith’s team is said to have subpoenaed the software company that handles surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago; on Thursday, CNN reported that prosecutors have “been asking questions in recent weeks about the handling of surveillance footage” from Trump’s club. Matthew Calamari Sr., the chief operating officer of Trump’s family business, and his son, Matthew Calamari Jr., the director of security for the company, were expected to testify before a grand jury this week.

According to the Times, a subpoena was also issued to the Trump Organization for “records pertaining to Mr. Trump’s dealings with a Saudi-backed professional golf venture known as LIV Golf, which is holding tournaments at some of Mr. Trump’s golf resorts.” While it’s not clear what LIV Golf would have to do with the investigation, Trump and his son-in-law have an exceedingly friendly relationship with the Saudis, so…who knows! The Times also notes that a “related line of inquiry for Mr. Smith’s team is whether Mr. Trump misled one of his lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran, about the movement of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago,” leading Corcoran to help draft a sworn statement—signed by another Trump lawyer—that said all classified documents had been turned over to the Justice Department, a statement that turned out to be very much not true.

The Washington Post reported last month that the Justice Department and FBI had “amassed fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction” by Trump. According to the outlet, which spoke to people familiar with the probe, investigators had “gathered new and significant evidence that after the subpoena was delivered, Trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession.” In addition, investigators were said to have found evidence suggesting that Trump told people to mislead government officials in early 2022, when the National Archives was working with the DOJ to recover documents Trump had taken with him when he left the White House, which, y’know, seems pretty bad.