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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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[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 61 points 10 months ago (7 children)

So the PAC was paying for his first lawyer.. The whole point of the PAC system is that the candidate doesn't control it, right? How does a PAC get held accountable for witness tampering?

[–] Nicenightforawalk@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trump has been doing this from early on in his presidency with other lawyers and people close to him. His PAC has always been there to pay for all the legal fees and they share the same lawyers then pass on the info between each other to get their clients stories straight and locked in.

[–] mrgoodc4t@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Huh… so they’re kinda shit at it right?

[–] Elderos@lemmings.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] extant@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah but we got our justice system off wish too.

[–] frshmt@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do we expect anything else from something linked to Donny?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I want to expect RICO charges for that behavior, but the 2 tiered legal system has conditioned me to expect very little justice when rich people are involved.

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