Involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the department of justice after trump was first indicted in florida. But taveras himself has not yet been indicted, and to be clear, as of now, we do not know if taveras is formally cooperating with jack smiths office. That said, as the Washington Post reports, quote, taveras offered information implicating all three defendants in an alleged conspiracy to cover up evidence. And we also know that following trumps indictment, taveras switched lawyers. He was previously represented
Good evening from washington. I am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. Donald trump could end up behind bars next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. And if he does, it may very well be because of a new testimony by someone identified by the justice department, only as Trump Employee 4. Now that we have had all weekend to digest the new Superseding Indictment for donald trump from doj special counsel jack smith and the classified documents case, employee number fours involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the departm
he got a subpoena to come and testify before both of the regular grand juries that are meeting here in august and are expected to hear potential trump related charges, and his subpoena dates says anywhere between august 7th, and august 31st. so, that means we are not expecting potential indictments this week, but we could see it next week, the week after. and potentially even later into august. and, tamar, while we are on that, quickly, what is his role or alleged role in this georgia story? george cheaty stumbled upon a meeting of alternate republican electors at the state capital here in georgia in mid december of 2020. he was there waiting to observe the regular democratic electors who were scheduled to go at noon. but he saw some republicans, and then he walked into a room. he thought, okay, that s interesting. he tried to enter the room. he was recording on s phone. it was booted out and told that
he got a subpoena to come and testify before both of the regular grand juries that are meeting here in august and are expected to hear potential trump related charges, and his subpoena dates says anywhere between august 7th, and august 31st. so, that means we are not expecting potential indictments this week, but we could see it next week, the week after. and potentially even later into august. and, tamar, while we are on that, quickly, what is his role or alleged role in this georgia story? george cheety stumbled upon a meeting of alternate republican electors at the state capital here in georgia in mid december of 2020. he was there waiting to observe the regular democratic electors who were scheduled to go at noon. but he saw some republicans, and then he walked into a room. he thought, okay, that s interesting. he tried to enter the room. he was recording on s phone. it was booted out and told that it was an educational meeting. and of course, we find out later that that was th