Mar-a-Lago witness ‘retracted false testimony’ to implicate Trump
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6E3F9)
Claim that employee of ex-president flipped made in court filing by prosecutors in classified documents case
A witness in the criminal case against Donald Trump over the hoarding of classified documents retracted prior false testimony" after switching lawyers last month and provided new information that implicated the former president, the justice department said late on Tuesday.
The statements from the witness, a Trump staffer identified in court papers as the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, was presented to prosecutors weeks before special counsel Jack Smith secured an updated indictment accusing Trump and two others in a plot to delete surveillance video at the Florida property.
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