{"id":2008603,"date":"2023-08-22T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-witness-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-retracted-prior-false-statement-jack-smith\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:28:56","slug":"key-witness-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-retracted-prior-false-statement-jack-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-witness-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-retracted-prior-false-statement-jack-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Key witness in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case admits to making false statement: Jack Smith."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkey-witness-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-retracted-prior-false-statement-jack-smith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Key Witness in Mar-a-Lago Case Retracts &#8220;False Testimony&#8221; \u200dImplicating Trump<\/h2>\n<p>A key \u2062witness in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-witness-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-retracted-prior-false-statement-jack-smith\/\" title=\"Key witness in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case admits to making false statement: Jack Smith.\">classified documents case\u2064 involving<\/a> former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago \u2063has retracted their previous\u200b &#8220;false testimony&#8221; after changing lawyers, according to special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s\u200b team. The witness, referred to as &#8220;Employee 4&#8221; in court records, has now provided new evidence to prosecutors that implicates Trump, his aide Walt Nauta,\u200c and Mar-a-Lago staffer Carlos De Oliveira.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his\u200c prior false testimony and\u2064 provided\u2064 information that implicated Nauta, De Oliveira and\u2064 Trump in efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-breaks-down-new-trump-charges-and-touts-strength-of-case\/\" title=\"Adam Schiff analyzes fresh Trump allegations, highlights case's robustness.\">delete security camera\u2064 footage<\/a>, as set forth in the superseding indictment,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith disclosed these details in a court filing to U.S. \u2064District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case and\u200c was appointed by\u2062 Trump. The charges against Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira include obstruction of investigators and the attempted recovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/giuliani-president-trump-should-declassify-more-documents\/\" title=\"Giuliani: President Trump should declassify more documents\">government documents<\/a>. All three \u200dhave pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Debate: RNC Announces\u2062 the \u200bEight GOP 2024 Contenders Who Made the Cut<\/h3>\n<p>This \u2063is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against ex-President Donald Trump has recanted their previous &#8220;false testimony&#8221; after hiring new lawyers, according to special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team. The witness, referred to as &#8220;Employee 4&#8221; in court records, provided fresh evidence to Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}