Powell, Ellis, & Chesebro plead guilty in GA

[Jake Broe Stan]

Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start.

Fulton County prosecutors are recommending a sentence of six years probation. Powell will also be required to testify at future trials and write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia.

As part of her guilty plea, Powell is admitting her role in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. With the help of local GOP officials, a group of Trump supporters accessed and copied information from the county’s election systems in hopes of somehow proving that the election was rigged against Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/sidney-powell-fulton-county-georgia-2020-election-subversion/index.html

 

[PeytonMooning]

6 years of probation? That's nothing. Sounds like they offered such a light punishment that pleading not guilty would be retarded.

As an independent voter, this isn't moving the needle for me. Prosecuting someone for attempting to investigate and analyze the election results says more about the prosecutors and the people behind them to me. It's shady as hell that a 3rd party isn't allowed to do an analysis of election results or that the data is protected after the fact.

 

[Mr.Fitzwell]

 

[TheResister]

6 years of probation? That's nothing. Sounds like they offered such a light punishment that pleading not guilty would be retarded.

As an independent voter, this isn't moving the needle for me. Prosecuting someone for attempting to investigate and analyze the election results says more about the prosecutors and the people behind them to me. It's shady as hell that a 3rd party isn't allowed to do an analysis of election results or that the data is protected after the fact.

I think you've probably gotten the equation right. Powell saved a lot of time and money opting for the guilty plea and none of it will impact Trump in the long run. I'm sure he will have plausible deniability. This is only for the prosecutors to help avoid any serious investigation into the whole matter. Powell is guilty so the claims that the election were rigged will be without merit - or something like that according to the left's narrative.

 

[Jake Broe Stan]

Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s 2020 fake electors plot, pleaded guilty Friday in the Georgia election subversion case to being part of a conspiracy alongside former President Donald Trump and others.

The plea deal is another blow to Trump and a major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It comes one day after former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell also pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony – conspiracy to commit filing false documents. Fulton County prosecutors recommended that he serve 5 years of probation and pay $5,000 in restitution, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee imposed that sentence at Friday’s hearing.

Chesebro has also agreed to testify in future court proceedings.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/kenneth-chesebro-georgia-election-subversion/index.html

 

[TheResister]

Republicans are trying to discredit the prosecutor in the Georgia case:

Georgia Republicans find a way to punish Fani Willis

After declining to defund Willis' office over the Trump indictment, Georgia Republicans are investigating the district attorney on another matter.

www.newsweek.com

You know what the CIA motto is: Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations. In this case neither side wants to tell you the truth. It's a side show to keep people from asking some really hard core questions. The lingering question is that if the Republicans can't come together and get the House back on track, what would four years of a party split within itself accomplish?

For all those independents that have a different political measuring stick, that may mean the difference between winning the next election or taking an historical beatdown... and to Angry Joe!!! We have to get past the election debacle and look at what is in front of us.

 

[Jake Broe Stan]

Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia's election

Donald Trump’s lead attorney in the 2020 Georgia election case against him is using another attorney’s guilty plea to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering charges brought against all 19 defendants.

apnews.com

 

[Jake Broe Stan]

In two courtrooms 800 miles apart on Tuesday, a stark reality for former President Donald Trump became clearer than ever: If Trump is taken down in his myriad criminal and civil cases, it will likely be at the hands of his own former lawyers.

In the morning, Jenna Ellis pleaded guiltyto an election felony in Georgia and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who have charged Trump and various allies with a racketeering conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election. She became the third Trump-affiliated lawyer in the past week to flip in the Georgia election case.

Then, in the afternoon, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, took the witness stand in Manhattan and told a judge how his former boss fraudulently inflated his net worth.
Trump’s lawyers have long served as a force field separating him from investigators and prosecutors targeting him. He and his allies have invoked attorney-client privilege to shield potential evidence, and Trump has even floated an “advice of counsel” defense in some of his criminal cases, arguing that he cannot be guilty because he was simply following the advice of his lawyers.
But as Trump’s legal troubles mount, prosecutors are increasingly turning his relationships with his lawyers against him.
Just last week, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro — two lawyers who helped advise Trump on his desperate last-ditch strategy to subvert the 2020 election — pleaded guilty in Georgia to aspects of the alleged scheme. In an ominous split screen for Trump, another architect of his effort — attorney John Eastman — retook the witness stand in a long-running disbarment trial in California, describing Oval Office meetings and phone conversations in the frenzied weeks before Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump's ex-lawyers become prosecutors’ star witnesses

Prosecutors are increasingly pitting ex-members of Donald Trump's legal team against him.

www.politico.com

 

[Jake Broe Stan]

Fulton County prosecutors have discussed potential plea deals with at least six additional co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election, multiple sources tell CNN.

The strategy by District Attorney Fani Willis’ office is clear: get as many co-defendants as possible to flip on the former president, leaving Trump and perhaps a few close allies on the hot seat.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/fulton-county-da-is-discussing-plea-deals-with-at-least-5-more-trump-co-defendants/index.html