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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      I’m not high net worth and I’ve paid for attorneys. Don’t have to be high net worth to be able to pay for proper representation.

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        You do have to have money in the first place.

        Trump hates paying people.

        Also, this is a case that is likely to take a lot of time and require a lot of attorney time. A public defender is likely a more sound financial decision even for someone with a reasonable amount of savings. Why go into crippling debt defending yourself from a former president, when a public defender will do it on the tax payer dime.

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          Oh for sure. With the amount of billable hours in something that gets dragged out like this, I wouldn’t be able to afford a non public defender and I do well for myself. I’ve had a couple instance where I had legal bills in the thousands but it wasn’t hours and hours of shit to work through. This is definitely the financially sound decision.