Mar-a-Lago Witnesses Are Dumping Their Trump Funded Lawyers

In legal filings over the weekend, at least three more witnesses from Mar-a-Lago have ditched their lawyers that were being paid for by Donald Trump's PAC. This is a huge development, as most of the other witnesses in other cases who dumped their Trump lawyers immediately flipped on the former president. Things are getting worse for Trump, and it appears more and more accomplices and witnesses are ready to squeal. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Well, in a court filing over this past weekend, it was revealed that one of the Trump funded lawyers that is currently representing three potential witnesses in the Mar-a-Lago case was dropped by those three potential witnesses. So that's three more people in the Mar-a-Lago case that are no longer being represented for some reason, right? We don't know why, but they have decided they no longer want Donald Trump paying for their lawyer. Now, the last person in the Mar-a-Lago case that actually dropped their Trump funded lawyer was the IT director, the former IT director, I believe, uh, Yuel Tavares. And immediately after he dropped his Trump paid for lawyer, Mr. Tavares decided to reverse his previous testimony, which he had basically been threatened with perjury for, and admitted that yes, Donald Trump directed us to delete the footage from the Mar-a-Lago security servers. And now three more people have said, you know what?

I don't think I want Donald Trump's lawyer representing me anymore. But there is a twist here. This may not necessarily mean that these three individuals decided that they're gonna flip on Donald Trump. So far, there's no indication one way or another what these three people who, by the way, we don't even know their names, uh, we don't know what their rationale is. But one of the things that has developed in this case is that, uh, uh, Mr. Oliviera, uh, you know, one of the indicted co-conspirators down there in, in Mar-a-Lago, his lawyer is the one that was also representing these three potential witnesses who are likely going to be called against him in the trial. So obviously, you can't have a lawyer representing both the witness and the person they're testifying against. That is a huge conflict of interest, and Jack Smith has obviously filed with Judge Cannon that this is a huge conflict of interest.

So dropping the Trump funded lawyer could be because, hey, we've got a conflict of interest. We are required to do this. Let's go ahead and do it. Or it could be not only because there's a conflict of interest, but because these individuals, like so many other individuals before them decided we're better off on our own and we need to start telling the truth. As I said, unfortunately, we do not yet know what the real reason is. There are several underlying factors. Obviously the conflict of interest is a big one, so we'll have to wait and see. But I will also say this said it before, I'll say it again,

All, and I do mean all of the people that ended up ditching their lawyers that were being paid for by Donald Trump ended up changing their tunes, whether it was with the January 6th select committee, or in the ongoing trials that Donald Trump is facing, every person that has switched lawyers has then decided to change their story and go against Donald Trump. So with history as a precedent, it would tell us that these three individuals are about to go scorched earth against Mr uh, uh, uh, uh, Olivier and everybody else. Or could be something as simple as, oops, we can't have the same lawyer, so we gotta switch. I guess we'll find out when this thing finally goes to trial.