A key witness against former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case recanted previous false testimony and provided new information implicating the defendants after he switched lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a new court filing.

Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, changed his testimony last month about efforts to delete security camera video at the club after he changed from a lawyer paid for by Trump’s Save America PAC to a public defender, Tuesday’s filing says.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You could argue he wasn’t the guy’s lawyer

    who was being paid by the former president’s Save America PAC

    A lawyer represents whoever is the paying his bills.

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      Like I said, I’m not a lawyer. Still pretty sure that elling anyone to lie on the stand is a No-No.