Mar-a-Lago staffer changes testimony, implicates Trump in classified files case

A witness in the criminal case against Donald Trump over the hoarding of classified documents retracted "prior false testimony" after switching lawyers last month and provided new information that implicated the former president, the Justice Department said.

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The statements from the witness, a Trump staffer identified in court papers as the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, was presented to prosecutors weeks before special counsel Jack Smith secured an updated indictment accusing Trump and two others in a plot to delete surveillance video at the Florida property. Prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday that the witness told a grand jury in Washington that he could not recall any conversations about the security footage