Tonight, as you and yours settle in for Netflix & Chill, I want to introduce you to a guy who looks like a Hallmark Xmas movie lead, but is playing a role in a far more interesting drama. Meet William B. (aka Beau) Harrison. 1/
Harrison is a former White House operations aide who, according to emails exchanged with the GSA in 2021, was also scheduled to take a role with former President Trump in Florida. See page 20 here:
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And he is married to another former WH aide, Hayley D'Antuono, who also made the move to Florida. Here's their wedding pic, courtesy of Politico:
Harrison and his wife were in Trump's inner circle. Here they are, along with Trump's social media guru Dan Scavino, as Trump's coterie for his last flight on Marine One from the White House:
And it would seem they remain in the inner circle. FEC filings for Trump's leadership PAC, Save America, reveal that they remain on his payroll:
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But what makes Harrison interesting now is the confluence of two things: the discovery of 2 additional classified documents in a Florida storage facility & his involvement in sending pallets of documents to both Mar-a-Lago and a West Palm Beach storage facility in 2021.
Specifically, in July 2021, as Harrison was working with GSA staff to have Trump's belongings sent to FL, he was told that certain funds could not be used unless someone certified those belongings were official, not personal. As docs @JasonLeopold obtained show, Harrison obliged:
@JasonLeopold By late September 2021, Harrison was *still* arranging for pallets of documents to be delivered, including to a West Palm Beach storage facility called Life Storage:
@JasonLeopold As @hugolowell noted earlier this week, it's *not* clear that Life Storage is "where the new documents were found – but it was the place from where Trump’s lawyers sent two dozen boxes to the National Archives earlier this year."
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@JasonLeopold @hugolowell Unsurprisingly, Harrison reportedly was interviewed by the FBI last spring.
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@JasonLeopold @hugolowell But here's the kicker: Before any of us learned this week that a firm Trump hired found two additional classified docs in a Florida storage facility, we knew that 3 Trump aides testified before a grand jury *last* week:
nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/…
@JasonLeopold @hugolowell And among the three who testified the same day that a federal appeals court ended Trump's special master dreams? The man who could have been a cable rom com star, Beau Harrison:
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