The threat of perjury charges and a government-led push for a Mar-a-Lago worker to consult with a new attorney led him to retract prior testimony and formed the basis for the superseding indictment of former President Trump and others involved in the probe. Yuscil Taveras, a Mar-a-Lago IT worker, has previously been identified as the…
The employee allegedly implicated former President Donald Trump and two of his aides in a pressure campaign to delete security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
filing by special counsel jack smith s office. assistant special counsel david harbach wrote in the filing, quote, on july 5th, 2023, tarvaris identified as trump employee four, informed chief judge that he no longer wished to be represented by stanley woodward. and that going forward, he wished to be represented by the first assistant federal defender. immediately after receiving new counsel, tarvaris retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated nauta, de oliveira, and trump in efforts to delete security footage. in the superseding indictment. so we re now starting to see what happens once the pressure cooker is on and people start being more loyal to themselves than to donald trump. so what does that mean for the 18 people indicted with trump as well as the unindicted
the three charged defendants that is mr. trump, mr. nauta, and mr. deoliveira, did in connection with the obstruction scheme. it s not surprising that you would have more than those three people. in fact i suspect there are quite a few more. and this is how you make a case. you do that, but it is really important that people have independent counsel. and andrew weissman, the fact that he is telling the truth with what sounds like a public defender, does that change how the government approaches mr. nauta, who i believe the government was lying to it from the beginning? well, mr. nauta by all accounts was given the exact same choice. he is where he is because he decided not to cooperate. he made choices about his own conduct. and he is being charged for that. it remains of course the government s burden to prove that, but he chose a very
different path which is why he is a defendant in that case. the same thing is reported to be the case for mr. de oliveira. i can t imagine jack smith wouldn t be interested in their truthful testimony as witnesses and even able to immunize them and have a prosecution agreement. in order, sell us what happened and what you did and we won t charge you with it, but you have to be 100% candid. this goes on all the time. i suspect we know about this person in mar-a-lago, there are other people in a similar situation that we will learn about as this case goes forward. you know, it always stunned me that so many ordinary people were willing to ruin their lives and their families lives to commit crimes on behalf of donald trump. and charlie, i guess i m surprised that this doesn t happen more often, that the 18 codefendants in georgia seem to