Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-witness-reversal-testimony-jack-smith-00112355

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team revealed the details of the employee’s about-face in a new filing.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

The aide — described as “Trump Employee 4” in public court filings but identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras — held the title of director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago. He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony” and detailed the alleged effort to tamper with evidence related to the investigation of the handling of classified information stored at Trump’s Florida home, the new submission said.

If he says that the lawyer pressured him to lie...

We're going to a shit ton of other people dropping Trump's lawyers and turning against him

cybervseas@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

JelloBrains@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If he says that the lawyer pressured him to lie…

If he says this, then the lawyer should in theory be disbarred, at the very least they should be banned from the case, because I'm pretty sure they are representing Trump still.

Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

And maybe get nailed themselves for obstructing justice.

Telling people to lie under oath to protect another client is… well there’s probably some kind of crime there.

Also, people, if you’re not the one paying them… they’re not your lawyer.

PugJesus@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y

Trump Attorney: "No, don't worry, you can beat this, just don't admit to anything."

Actual Attorney: "Jesus Christ, dude, you are so fucking hosed."