Meadows has already shown himself willing to undermine his former boss in order to save his own skin. In mid-August, Meadows and former Vice President Mike Pence said separately that they had no knowledge of Trump declassifying a large number of documents, completely undermining the former president’s main defense in the Mar-a-Lago case.
Other former Trump allies are also starting to turn. In July, a Mar-a-Lago employee named Yuscil Taveras changed his testimony in the indictment against Trump for mishandling classified documents. Taveras was assigned a new public defender in July, replacing his Trump-appointed lawyer, and “immediately” recanted his testimony denying that there had been any conversations about security footage that prosecutors subpoenaed in 2022 as part of the investigation.
Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani may also soon turn on his boss (who is refusing to pay him). Giuliani met in June with special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating Trump in Florida for mishandling classified documents and in Washington for trying to overturn the 2020 election. It’s not clear what happened during the meeting, but it’s not unthinkable that Giuliani may try to reach a deal with prosecutors to save his own skin.
Injest_alkahest on September 7th, 2023 at 02:10 UTC »
Once your IT guy flips, it’s so over.
No-Grapefruit-5932 on September 7th, 2023 at 02:02 UTC »
Between Evan Cochran's recordings where Trump is quoted as saying "I don't want you looking through my boxes" and "can't we just tell them we don't have anything", and now this this guy presumably testifying that he was ordered to destroy security footage, securing convictions on withholding government documents and obstruction of justice should be slam dunks.
mzieg on September 7th, 2023 at 00:07 UTC »
Trump no longer has the money to buy people off, or the power to frighten them into compliance. He has no leverage to control anyone anymore. Nobody believes he’ll be President again, so he can’t dangle juicy promises, nor does anyone fear his retribution. The emperor is now fully declothed, wobbling up Peachtree as a lonely, dumpy little man.