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Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers (www.politico.com)

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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.

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[–] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 115 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight, the lawyer Trump gave him turned out to only be looking out for Trump? And he turned state's witness when he got a real lawyer and figured out how effed he was? Wow, what a crazy world.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's even better is that the same lawyer, Stanley Woodward, is also representing another key witness and Trump lackey Walt Nauta. Which could mean that if Taveras testifies that Woodward mislead or coerced him into falsifying parts of his testimony in order to protect Trump, it could also call into question the legitimacy of Nauta's testimony. It's bad news for Trump on multiple levels.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhhhh that's why Jack Smith was making it so very very clear to Nauta that he has a right to an independent attorney.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

To prevent appeals based on inadequate legal representation. There's some procedure to make sure the defendant knows about his attorney's potential conflicts of interest and allow him to waive the right to such an appeal if he wants to keep that attorney.

[–] burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

And when they cross examine him they could usually grill the witness about being a liar. But since it’s the same lawyer he fired if he asks why he changed his story all he has to say is it’s because I told them what you wanted me to say

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

You're right. All things I'd never have suspected. /s