Posted on 08/23/2023 7:31:27 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case should hold a hearing to discuss potential conflicts of interest among the lawyers involved in the proceedings, after a Mar-a-Lago employee flipped on the former president, a legal expert has said.
Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance was reacting to news that Yuscil Taveras, an IT director at Trump's Florida resort, has retracted "his prior false testimony" and now says the former president and two others charged in the classified documents case, Trump aide Walt Nauta and maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, did take steps to delete security camera footage that had been sought by federal prosecutors.
Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira have pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them in the classified documents case, including obstruction allegations.
The change of testimony from Taveras, revealed in court filings on Tuesday, arrived after the IT worker switched lawyers from one paid for by Trump's PAC, Stanley Woodward, to one provided by the federal government.
Taveras implicating the former president happened after prosecutors working in Special Counsel Jack Smith's office had raised concerns that Woodward, who represents Nauta, may have a conflict of interest because he also represented Taveras, who was identified in the superseding indictment as "Trump Employee 4."
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I am near 100% certain that the Feds are threatening everyone with ruining their lives unless they perjure themselves.
The witness had a lot of incentive to go against Trump. Is there proof here? Emails? Texts?
That’s a safe bet.
I can’t believe our country has come to this.
Making a bunch of offers the witnesses cannot refuse, I assume.
Yes of course they are.
They are going after his team with destruction. I hope trump learned his lesson and when hes in he unleashes hell on all thier a##es, take no prisoners!
“Jack Smith’s office had raised concerns that Woodward, who represents Nauta, may have a conflict of interest because he also represented Taveras”
Of course the new lawyer has no conflict of interest even though he is being paid to defend Taveras by the people who are accusing Taveras.
Yes. Worse, he admits to lying "before". How do we know he isn't lying now? He has completely impeached his own testimony.
He’s always hired bad people. Almost everyone in his entire cabinet turned on him at one point or another. I get that some of it (hiring Mitch McConnell’s wife) is politics, but there’s a lot of plain bad judgment.
What kind of name is Yuscil Taveras?
near 100% certain
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With what the deep state and the Biden crime family have at stake, its a given. Probably also mentioning to the witnesses that accident do happen to one’s family, to self, and to neighbors. And just to make sure, someone might mumble something about getting home safely from the ‘interview,’ unless certain things were ‘understood’ to be true.
You can’t trust someone who starts off by “lying” and then suddenly “tells the truth”. Smith and his dishonest crew are threatening people, we all know that.
Defense will be: “Mr. Taveras, are you lying now or were you lying then? Simple answer. Are you lying now or then?” “Which is it?”
True, but he may have been too busy with other things to personally interview and hire the Mar-a-Lago IT director.
Were there any good people to hire?
I take it, therefore, you assume that all public defenders are inherently conflicted since each and everyone of them in the nation is paid by the government.
Yeah but I’m reasonably sure he had a hand in hiring Mark Meadows, and Meadows is also collaborating with Jack Smith against Trump.
Third world corrupt country tactics.
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