Posted on 08/22/2023 6:09:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team revealed the details of the employee’s about-face as part of a filing demanded by Florida-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified records case against the former president.
She had questioned why prosecutors continued to collect evidence from a grand jury empaneled in Washington, D.C., even after Smith obtained a grand jury indictment in Florida in June charging Trump with more than 30 counts of retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump and longtime aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira are also charged in the case with taking steps to obstruct investigators seeking to recover the government documents.
Taveras’ reversal led directly to new charges against Trump that Smith’s prosecutors included in a superseding indictment issued by a federal grand jury in Miami last month, detailing alleged efforts to erase the security camera recordings, prosecutors said.
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“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”
Oh, well, there you go, that wraps it up.
” switching . . . to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington”
Yeah, nothing suspicious there, no sir.
What is astounding is that the prog crew from the feds will trot this BOS out to “testify” while maintaining a straight face, expecting everyone to nod yes and golf clap like they did to Hitlery after her BS show.
What they seem to be blind to is every time they do this the line to vote for PDJT gets longer, no matter how phenomenally stupid the script of the “testimony” actually is.
They will screech “disinformation” and “terrorist” at anyone not on their knees before the Great and Mighty fed.gov drama queers, praising their legal knowledge without need of actual facts or any scrap of legal precedence.
At least up in WA district of communists.
DC ain’t the world...
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So, you either lied then, or you are lying now. Your honor, this witness is by his own admission unreliable. I move all his testimony be struck from the record.
Remember when Ken Starr had Bill Clinton dead to rights on perjury.
And so naturally, Ken Starr was vilified as a pervert, because “everyone lies about sex”.
But I digress. Isn’t the testimony in this case that somebody else said “the boss wants the tapes deleted. “ Not Trump, a third party.
Meanwhile what’s going on with Biden having classified documents in a friggin garage.
...retracted his prior false testimony...
Okay, great, you are a liar.
Were you lying before, or are you lying now, or do you lie all the time?
Is he now an ‘incentivized witness’???
I smell a rat.
Go ahead Smith, put him on the stand.
The aide must have been well paid to flip.
It won’t fly. First, he has to prove when he quit lying.
How would someone who monitors security cameras discern when obstruction was occurring?
Was Trump wearing a mask, blue jeans, and sneakers when he stole into the area to remove documents?
Whoa
they framed him from day 1
who is lying ?
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr23-015
NARA General Counsel Gary M. Stern clarified a response that he had given during his January 31, 2023, interview with the Committee:
I stated at the interview that it was my recollection that NARA had not provided such assistance. Following the interview, I checked with my colleagues, and I was informed that, in fact, NARA did send staff members to the White House in the final weeks of the Trump Administration to assist with the move of the physical records (including artifacts), in coordination with the DOD team that NARA employed to transport the records from the White House complex to the National Archives. It is my understanding that this support was logistical in nature and did not involve providing records management guidance. In addition, NARA staff provided on-site transition support to the National Security Council. (The transfer of the electronic records was done by a different process that did not necessitate NARA staff to be onsite.)
He got a government lawyer. Suddenly began repeating government lines.
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