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Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, identified as Employee #5 in special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents indictment of former President Donald Trump, gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night — and revealed new details about the things he saw as he was ordered to help transport boxes. In particular, Butler told anchor and legal expert Ari Melber, Trump’s repeated claims that he had a legal right to declassify and take the documents stands in stark contrast to the efforts he seemed to take to conceal what he was doing from the authorities. Melber began by playing a clip of Trump…