The Beach Club at Mar-a-Lago has a 132 foot by 50 foot pool but it’s pretty far away from the main buildings of the complex. The primary pool measures 100 feet by 50 feet and is easy to see in aerial pictures of the twice-impeached, once-indicted ex-president’s luxury compound. Now, maybe if I were a pool maintenance guy this would make some sense, but looking at the layout of the place, it’s hard for me to picture how you can manage to accidentally flood a room containing the servers that keep the surveillance video footage.

An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

While it’s unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious.

I mean, I don’t know where they normally pump the water when they drain the pool, but a normal resort would hire professionals, not rely on some rando on staff. And there’s generally municipal rules about how and when you can do this.

If you just start siphoning water out of your pool with a garden hose, you could end up costing yourself a lot of time, money, and grief. Many municipalities have their own rules about how, when, and where someone can drain their pool, and you need to abide by those rules.

For instance, most municipalities will require you to run your pool water through your home’s sewer cleanout line so it will flow to a water treatment plant. Others might allow you to send all that water down the storm drains that line your street. Municipalities may also have water chemical composition regulations. Some may require the water to be chlorine neutral, which would necessitate a lot of chlorine neutralizer.

Now the guy who took the water out of the pool and put it in the server room just happens to be the same guy who randomly decided to help Trump’s “body man” move boxes containing highly classified documents around just before Trump’s lawyer had to comb through them to comply with a subpoena from the Department of Justice. Unfortunately for these two individuals, their efforts were captured on surveillance tape, so this is a rather big coinkadink.

Prosecutors from the special counsel’s office have focused their obstruction inquiries around Trump, Trump’s body man Walt Nauta and a maintenance worker who helped Nauta move boxes of classified documents ahead of federal agents searching the property last summer, and potentially others, sources told CNN.

The sources say that the maintenance worker is the person who drained the pool that led to the flooding of the IT room where the surveillance footage was held.

Of course, maybe the resort’s “sewer cleanout line” just happens to be located right next to the resort’s servers. Could happen. Maybe the servers are stacked right along with the noodle and ring floats and the giant inflatable swans. Maybe the computer tech guys and security staff wash beach towels in their spare time.

Seems like the FBI should be able to establish what degree of plausibility, if any, this story has, and I’m sure a jury can do the same. Sadly, it appears that the servers emerged unscathed and no surveillance was damaged in this particular episode, although there’s still a concern that someone monkeyed with the archives in some other way. In fact, the concern is about the same dude and goes back a few months before the flooding incident.

The Washington Post reported last week that the employee was questioned repeatedly by investigators after he was seen on video footage helping another Trump aide, Walt Nauta, move boxes into a Mar-a-Lago storage room on June 2, the day before a top Justice Department official arrived with FBI agents to collect classified material in response to the subpoena.

Authorities have also examined events in mid-July surrounding a different subpoena, which sought footage from security cameras on the property. Around that time, the employee allegedly had a conversation with an IT worker at the site about how the security cameras worked and how long images remained stored in the system, the person familiar with that aspect of the investigation said.

The employee later told investigators that the conversation was innocent and was not about trying to hide anything from authorities, saying that he didn’t know at the time about the investigation or subpoena, according to another person familiar with the probe.

But those answers were met with skepticism, people familiar with the situation said.

I have to say that “skepticism” is the most appropriate word here. And it appears that Trump will most likely be arrested at some point this week. He sent a small squad of lawyers to talk to Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday in an apparent last ditch effort to keep their client from being charged with serious felonies that carry years and years of prison time. That might work if Trump was considering taking some kind of plea agreement, but what are the chances of that?

Buckle up.