A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

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First to flip gets the best deal… and we have a winner.

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So this guy is getting disbarred for telling his clients to commit perjury right?

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My guess is that a deal was struck before the flip was flopped.

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“we’ll give you better representation and a better shot at fighting these lesser charges if you flop the flip” - the DoJ, probably

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If I was to subborn perjury I’d go to jail, not lose my job.

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Legal question.

The lawyer was paid by the PAC to represent the employee. Who is the lawyer’s client? The employee or the PAC? Could the lawyer be in trouble for putting the PAC’s needs ahead of the employee’s?

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The client is the employee. The lawyer’s ethical duty is to the employee even though he is being paid by someone else. Same situation when your insurance company hires a lawyer to defend you in a lawsuit.

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Yes, I was thinking that they were cutting it pretty thin not telling the employee to cut a deal. Hopefully, this will be another case of MAGA [Make Attorneys Get Attorneys]

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Yes, that’s malpractice.

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Ianal, but I think they have a responsibility to at least let the defendant know about their options. Other than that, they can have a strategy or suggest the defendant accept the less good options.

Sounds like this guy realized that their “help” wasn’t in his own interest.

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I repeat myself but MAGE also means 'Make Attorneys Get Attorneys]

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First time reading iAnal on Lemmy. Gross. Thought we left that on reddit.

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You can ianal anywhere, and you should legally speaking.

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“Trump world” legal representation is a problem. They’ll pressure you into lying for them.

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Lol and the Trump lawyer wants to exclude his testimony as a witness because it’s a conflict of interest since he was his former lawyer. What nonsense.

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This Trump lawyer needs a lawyer now because he definitely broke laws by directing his client to lie.

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Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

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