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

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

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

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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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.

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- 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.
  
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  Ohhhhh that's why Jack Smith was making it so very very clear to Nauta that he has a right to an independent attorney.
  
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- 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
  
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- You're right. All things I'd never have suspected. /s
  
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Let the record show that the first person to become a cooperating witness was the IT guy. Remember kids, it is Black Friday rules -- he who flips first gets the best deals.

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- Wow, such a fitting expression.
  
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Oh to be a fly on the wall when the defence team were informed.

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Lmao - federal PD was probably like 'you fucking moron, fix it. NOW.'

Edit: If the Trump attorney's advice was bad enough, wonder if it'll have repercussions for his bar card? Golly, that'd sure be unfortunate.

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If you think this is fun, just watch what happens when his Fulton County codefendants realize nobody's going to be paying their legal bills; the only question is whether Fani Willis decides Rudy's testimony is more valuable than the satisfaction of watching him go down.

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- Georgia Republicans are working on passing a law to let the legislature get rid of any DA they disapprove of.
  
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  Damn, what a weird coincidence.
  
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  That sounds like RICO could be expanded to a few more people.
  
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  Fucking fascist trash
  
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  They already passed it, but it's designed to target DAs who don't prosecute abortion cases, not to stop Willis; it works through a panel of former DAs/judges and a number of them are appointed by the governor, who has no great love for Trump.
  
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This just keeps getting wilder and wilder.

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