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.

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    Idk but possibly related: I’ve heard that there are a good number of times you should prefer public defender to paid representation.

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          That’s called a conflict of interest and possibly suborning perjury. That’s the kind of thing that would get you disbarred, if the Bar actually cared about such things.

          Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

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            Pretty sure Trump has scared off any lawyers who are not terribly crooked at this point. He’s got kind of a history of throwing any halfway honest ones under the bus or not listening to their recommendations. He sounds like a nightmare client.

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        The main thing I’ve heard is that public defense is offen local to the court house and therefore has a feel for tone, procedure and manner. This might give them a few sympathy points, and even though obv the case itself is far more important, this makes a few things easier still.