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So instead of being bought, he's being extorted? Yeah that totally makes the current version of his story more valid... Throw this motherfucker off the witness stand and send him on his way, he's either full of shit or he's full of shit...
Are we planning on indicting everyone who testifies for the defense on fraud charges? Is that how this shit works now? Tell me how this is an improvement over trump buying witnesses or slipping religious fervor inducing drugs into their food or whatever ye fuck he's doing to get people to back up his bullshit?
Indicting witnesses isn't the fucking high road. Fuck trump, but fuck this bullshit too. This is exactly the sort of shit that "defund the police" types bemoan when it's done to a nobody, but hey, as long as we get trump, it's all fucking good... it's fucking not good...
If the prosecution comes to a witness for the defense and says are you sure you want to stick with your story we have evidence that the opposite happened, that isn't extortion. That is giving a witness the chance to tell the truth.
I think by extortion he meant the real and legal consequences of breaking the law.
The whole point of being a witness is that you’re not supposed to lie, and if you lie you can be prosecuted for it. What’s even the point of the concept of perjury otherwise?
It is, and you should... most of the time.
There are times where it is beneficial to let a witness know that you know they're lying, giving them a chance to flip before you fry them, as the info they're holding onto may very well be worth more than eliminating them as a witness entirely via perjury.