Key Mar-a-Lago witness flips after dumping Trump-aligned lawyer, court filings reveal

A key witness in the federal classified documents case against Donald Trump changed his testimony after getting rid of a Trump-affiliated lawyer, according to new court filings. Mar-a-Lago technology worker Yuscil Taveras, who is believed to be the person identified in court papers as “Trump Employee 4,” talked with prosecutors about efforts to cover up the wrongfully retained documents. Andrew Weissmann and Danya Perry, former federal prosecutors, discuss with Alex Wagner. 

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[jayskateandsuchstuff]

This kind of thing should trigger an investigation by the bar association.

[gutstompenrocker]

The BAR needs to look into these lawyers and some licenses need to start getting revoked.

[Chapps]

🎶 Flipper, Flipper 🐬 🎵 🐬
So apt that it's Florida,
the Home of the Flippers

[supersquirrel]

Trump will be singing Kenny Roger's "You Picked A Fine Time to Leave Me Yuscil" all week, especially when down in Georgia.

[chansetwo]

Don't take the lawyer your company offers you in a joint dispute. They are only interested in representing the party that pays their bill. That's not you. I made that mistake once. Get your own independent legal representation.

[spiceyhotpot]

Whenever the witnesses get rid of the Dump aligned lawyer they seem to find the truth.

[flyrobin]

Mob bosses always help get you a lawyer, because that lawyer will have the mob boss's best interest first. It's the worse thing to do, always get your own lawyer.

[MrMetro-mtqv]

They are starting to flip like an Acrobat. 🤸‍♂️

[sinisin]

Going to be fun to watch as panic breeds more panic. The flippers will create more flippers because they ain't trying to go to jail for this dude.

[marketads]

My head continues to spin with the chaos brought on by that mad man.

[nelsonclub]

Sounds like that lawyers lawyer is going to need a lawyer

[joemamnen]

Why no action against the lawyer by the Bar?

[williamlouie]

It's insane that defendant's lawyer is the same lawyers for the witness against the defendant? The witness is bought and owned by the defendant. How can this be allowed!

[NickBusbeeFunkSchoolRadio]

Isn't it illegal for an attorney to advise a witness to lie under oath?

[imyourhuckleberry]

Every Mobb Boss that went down was the consequences of someone who flipped. Bada Bing! 😅😅😅😅

[triarb]

I really hope Taveras is given appropriate security protection. He is going to be the target of many death threats.

[davidpantoja]

It's obvious we have two systems of justice

[DoggerMcD]

3:48 - Correction: a lawyer who tells a client to say she can't remember when she does remember has explicitly told his client to lie.

[agny]

This recent stream of long awaited good news is gonna keep coming but god is it draining

[Someoneincanada]

It will be so nice when he’s locked up and shut up!!!