Mar-a-Lago's IT employee changes his lawyer and his story
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:07.0 | Brilliant constitutional scholar John Eastman could be so brilliant that he ends up in |
| 0:20.2 | prison for years for helping mastermind Trump's election plot. |
| 0:23.9 | Today he and another Trump co-defendant surrendered in Atlanta. |
| 0:28.3 | Plus breaking news in the classified documents case, as Mar-Lago's IT guy changes his lawyer |
| 0:35.0 | and his story. |
| 0:36.8 | And it is very bad news for Donald Trump. |
| 0:40.6 | Also tonight new reporting on Mark Meadows' delicate dance with special counsel Jack Smith. |
| 0:45.4 | But D.A. Fonday Willis isn't dancing. |
| 0:47.4 | Tonight she's warning Meadows to surrender by Friday for face possible arrest. |
| 0:56.4 | And we begin tonight with fear. |
| 0:58.6 | Donald Trump's fear to be specific. |
| 1:01.2 | Because Donald Trump's fear has become all too obvious, even for the man formerly known |
| 1:06.1 | as Teflon Don. |
| 1:08.3 | On Monday, hours after his bond was set at $200,000, Trump did a tell. |
| 1:14.6 | He went on his great value version of Twitter and announced that he will turn himself into |
| 1:19.6 | authorities in Fulton County, Georgia on Thursday, meaning at that moment he will be under |
| 1:25.5 | arrest. |
| 1:27.1 | This will follow the surrender of some of the 18 others charged in Georgia for alleged |
| 1:31.1 | efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election that Trump lost in Georgia and every |
| 1:36.5 | other state he needed. |
| 1:38.6 | And Trump must be afraid. |
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