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Eric Tucker | Associated Press

Prosecutors say witness in Trump’s classified documents case retracted false testimony

Former President Donald Trump was charged in June with refusing to return classified documents he had taken with him when he left the White House and obstructing government efforts to collect the documents. (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON — 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 Tuesday.

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.

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