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.

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    1 year ago

    That’s a lot of words to be wrong, friend-o.

    Saying “Are you sure you don’t want to revise your testimony, because we have factual evidence that it’s false and that may lead to an indictment for perjury.” isn’t extortion, it’s allowing this guy to not loyalty his way into a felony.

    Imagine, the police/prosecution use their discretion and don’t throw the book at someone and idiots still take exception to it