A key witness against former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case recanted previous false testimony and provided new information implicating the defendants after he switched lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a new court filing.
Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, changed his testimony last month about efforts to delete security camera video at the club after he changed from a lawyer paid for by Trump’s Save America PAC to a public defender, Tuesday’s filing says.
Because if he said he wasn’t at X but they can prove he was at X that doesn’t mean they can prove everything he saw and heard there, but on the other hand they can get him to testify he was there and tell what he saw and heard there with that proof of his presence included.
That doesn’t mean his new testimony will be considered fully trustworthy by the court, but it does mean they can now submit his story into evidence when they previously couldn’t.
Then they can additionally ask others about details in his testimony to uncover further evidence and try to prove their case.