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

    If they’re lying, and you can prove it, you prosecute them for perjury…

    But if you suspect they’ve got important info, them perjurying them would be a waste. It would be more beneficial to let a witness know that you know they’re lying before you prosecute. Give them a chance to straighten out their story, potentially giving you a much larger win than if you’d simply removed them as a witness via perjury. That’s exactly what they’ve done here