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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      Perjury to advantage his other client. There has to be a law against lawyers doing that.

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        I mean that sounds like fraud to me, is there a form of malpractice that applies to Legal cases? Like a lawyer version of medical malpractice.

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          I think Kim gets sued for something similar in Better Call Saul. It’s almost definitely something you can get disbarred over.

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          Conflict of interest, it’s an ethical violation and at times grounds for mistrial by willfully ineffective counsel.