Prosecutors accuse Trump of showing off classified documents to employees and others not authorized to see them — not once, but twice at his sprawling golf club on the rural plains of New Jersey.
According to the indictment, Trump bragged in July 2021 about a sensitive military plan with two of his staffers, as well as the writer and publisher of a forthcoming book from his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, during a session at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.
The people said that as the investigation proceeded and more information was gathered, there was little desire to order an involuntary search of a second home of the former president — particularly because his lawyers were in communication with authorities about searches they were conducting to ensure no more records were in Trump’s possession. Investigators have long believed the large majority of documents Trump took from the White House were stored in Florida.
While president, Trump would frequently decamp from Washington to his New Jersey club and hold meetings with top government officials there, particularly in the summer months. There, he installed a makeshift office among the luxury cottages that surround the club’s 25-meter swimming pool and has resided in a separate cottage in the same complex, where he stores his belongings, according to people who have visited.
Aides said they preferred when Trump vacationed at Bedminster while president than when he spent time at Mar-a-Lago, which he frequented in winter months. One adviser said there were fewer “crazies” among the membership of the less flashy New Jersey club and fewer opportunities to bend his ear around the pool or over dinner about their pet issues.After Trump left office in January 2021, he spent his first months out of office in Florida.
The Bedminster club inherited one feature of Trump’s life in the White House of which he was especially fond — a roughly $50,000 room-size “golf simulator” game, surrounded by two walls featuring oversize presidential seals, that was transferred to the club from his personal quarters in the White House after he had it installed in 2019 to play virtual rounds at golf courses all over the world.
“The sound of children laughing drifts into the room from the club’s pool, which sits just outside of the president’s new office,” he wrote. “The boss leans back in his chair, dressed in a sport coat and a crisp white shirt that’s open at the neck. He looks at least twenty pounds lighter than he was in office.”
Responding to the audio on Tuesday, Trump said in a statement: “As we’ve been saying from the moment President Trump rode down the golden escalator, the President did nothing wrong.”Also present at the meeting was Kate Hartson, a publishing veteran who co-founded a conservative imprint called All Seasons Press in 2021 that put out the Meadows book, and another person involved with the project, Sean McGowan. Hartson did not respond to request for comment, and McGowan could not be reached.
In the days leading up to the meeting, Trump and Nauta corresponded extensively, as Nauta moved approximately 64 boxes from the storage room to Trump’s residence, the indictment alleges. An unidentified Trump family member texted Nauta on May 30, 2022, after noticing the boxes in Trump’s residence, to warn him about packing too many boxes on the plane when the family left for Bedminster.
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