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.
The whole point of being a witness is that you’re not supposed to lie, and if you lie you can be prosecuted for it. What’s even the point of the concept of perjury otherwise?
It is, and you should… most of the time.
There are times where it is beneficial to let a witness know that you know they’re lying, giving them a chance to flip before you fry them, as the info they’re holding onto may very well be worth more than eliminating them as a witness entirely via perjury.
That’s absolutely true. I wandered too deep into one side of the if clause by accident.
I’m going to argue that that’s usually the case. If they are on the stand, it’s probably someone else’s trial. Perjury places them in legal jeopardy, but it’s the other guy that you’re after.