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    Basically trump wanted this guy to lie. He was using a trump pac sponsored lawyer at the time. Smith says “hey we’re gonna investigate you for perjury because we found evidence that you did fuck with the tapes so you might want to get a non trump aligned lawyer”. Soon as he gets a public defender he changes his tune and sings like a canary blaming it on trump et al and now he isn’t being charged since he’s cooperating.

    Sounds like trump and his ilk are turbo fucked on this. Only the first guy to sing gets immunity usually.

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        They’ll probably let Nauta plea to a lesser charge in order to nail trump to the wall.

        That’s how it goes a lot of times in cases like this. First guy gets immunity. Next few get plea deals if they give up actionable info. Everyone else gets the book thrown at them.

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          Nauta’s entire identity is bound up in being Trump’s body man. What do I know, but I’d be shocked if he rolls.

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      Pretty shady in such a high profile case. Surely a lawyer wouldn’t have told him to lie, just didn’t tell him not to lie.

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          No surprise, Trump says he doesn’t hire anyone smarter than he is.

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        Oh I’m sure it wasn’t in those exact words since trump thinks he’s a mob boss, but the sentiment was probably there. We won’t know until these guys take the stand.

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          Once those rico charges stick, we’ll have confirmation that he’s a mob boss. But we already know he is one.

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    I don’t know why any underlings would decide turn on Trump, since he has always demonstrated a fervent loyalty and unrelenting effort to protect anyone who supported him.

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      Sarcasm can be difficult to catch in online conversations. Yours, however, came through like hot sauce on chicken wings.

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      To be fair, if you turn on Trump, there is the very real threat of having millions of meal team six members’ attention being directed your way by the cult leader. Death threats, doxxing, stalking, harassment, and other criminal behavior are a very real possibility.

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      The iron law of Trump Supporters is that Everyone Gets Shit On. No Exceptions.

      It’s such a bizarre cult. They don’t even know what they’re doing.

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    IT folken! If corpo borporate boss ever tells you to erase the security footage and/or logs, remember these magic words: “Sure just send the request in writing and I’ll get right on it.”

    And maybe backup those logs to a thumbdrive if you feel comfortable with that.

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          Acting? Delivering backups to secure sites is a standard process and very mundane.

          Not everything can go over the internet, due to security concerns or sheer size.

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            Just backing you up, yeah… Physically taking tape backups to a secure offsite location is one of those best practices.

            Hell, my personal back ups for my server are stored redundantly on one of my parents file servers. Same for their stuff on my server.

            If there is a big enough disaster that both our servers locations are rendered damaged from it, we got bigger problems than a server, like a massive metroplex getting razed.

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    “I’m not paid by Donald Trump and everything your former lawyer told you is bullshit, you will go to jail for a significant amount of time”

    It’s like a law and order episode, except real.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Yuscil Taveras, an IT director identified as Trump Employee 4 in legal documents, changed his testimony after switching lawyers, say prosecutors.

    Mr Trump, his close personal aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira have all pleaded not guilty.

    The former president is accused of mishandling the storage of sensitive files at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, and trying to cover up the alleged crime by deleting security footage.

    The court document filed on Tuesday says Mr Taveras changed lawyers after special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the case, notified him he was being investigated for perjury.

    During grand jury testimony in March this year, Mr Taveras “repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago”.

    The chief judge overseeing the federal grand jury, James Boasberg, offered a public defender to Mr Taveras after prosecutors pointed out a conflict of interest for his lawyer Stanley Woodward, who was being partly funded by Mr Trump’s Save America political action committee.


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    No one is going to spend 40 years in jail for Trump. When he realized they had evidence implicating him in the destruction of evidence it was a forgone conclusion he’d flip. Also the Trump lawyer that told the IT manager to lie to investigators needs to be charged as well.