You treasonous conservator/America Hating/Republicans might want to tune in. The Kraken Sidney Powell has just pled guilty down in Georgia and agreed to cooperate.

 

It does not get much bigger than this. The Kraken has just been released on Trump. Sidney Powell is at the center of everything in Trump's attempted coup. She is the linchpin of Fanni Willis' RICCO case. And she just caved taking Trump and all his co-conspirators with her. That going to prison thing sure can cut a lot of ties.



'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell to plead guilty in Georgia election case

Brad Reed
October 19, 2023 10:00AM ET



Sidney Powell Screen capture


Sidney Powell, the conspiracy-mongering attorney whose false claims about Dominion Voting Systems rigging the 2020 election came from a woman who claimed that she could speak with the wind, is pleading guilty to criminal charges.

As reported by CNN's Kaitlan Collins, "Powell will be required to testify at future trials and write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia" as part of her plea deal.

According to Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Tamar Hallerman, Powell will avoid jail time as part of the deal but will have six years of probation, and will also pay a $6,000 fine and a $2,700 restitution to the state.

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Powell is also facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems related to her false claims about the company conspiring with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to steal elections from conservatives all over the world.

Powell's false claims against Dominion, which were promoted by both Trump and the Republican National Committee on its Twitter account, were so far-fetched that even many Trump allies who believed that there was mass voter fraud in the 2020 election thought she went too far.

Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, for instance, argued that Powell was "the worst thing that ever happened" to their efforts to keep the former president in power.



https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-guilty-plea/?scrollPosition=0

 

What's funny about this, is it's not what you think it is.... LMAO
NOPE, not guilty of voter fraud!

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.

I find it disturbing at how easy it is to access these machines physically & internally. Specially when Ga. claims there secured & Dominion claims they can't be hacked.

 

Now your stupid ignorance is both hilarious and satisfying to me. Powell is indicted under Georgia RICCO laws which means Fanni Willis only has to prove one charge to prove the conspiracy where everyone indicted is guilty as well


But go ahead and say it out loud so you can hear yourself. Sidney Powell has agreed to cooperate down in Georgia. But she won't cooperate with Jack Smith?

 

'Devastating for Trump': Legal analysts expect others to follow Sidney Powell to plea deal

Sarah K. Burris
October 19, 2023 11:03AM ET



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"The Kraken cracked," "The Kraken is down": The internet erupted with the news that Sidney Powell agreed to a plea deal in the RICO case in which she's a co-defendant of Donald Trump Thursday.

Powell, who previously called herself "The Kraken" during the 2020 election overthrow attempt, must cooperate with Georgia prosecutors and has already met with them overnight to give information, according to the reports.

The plea deal is something that former prosecutor Joyce Vance predicted in her MSNBC piece Thursday morning, saying that another deal – made with Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall earlier this month – must have given significant information. She speculated mere hours before Powell's deal was announced that the Kraken would likely follow Hall's example.

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"Unlawfully possessing ballots and using a computer without authority with the intention to access personal information and interfere with the election," explained Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis about Powell's involvement.

"This is really significant. This is a person who knows a lot and has a significant story to tell," said Katie Phang on MSNBC as the news rolled in.

"Reminder," began legal analyst Bradley Moss, "that Trump tried to make Sidney Powell an emergency Special Counsel in the final weeks of his presidency. She's now pleading guilty to felonies."

Those felonies, however, as part of the plea deal, will be cut down to misdemeanors, which is why she won't get jail time.

Former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal reposted Moss' comment saying, "Sidney Powell, leader of the Krakens, pleading guilty to crimes in Georgia is very bad news for criminal defendant Donald Trump. Those of us in the reality-based community knew this for years, but for Powell to join and to commit to testifying truthfully, is devastating for Trump

"This is enormous, bodes badly for Trump, no?" asked former Ambassador Luis Moreno.

One of the main things analysts agreed on is Powell's deal in the Georgia case may as well mean she'll cooperate in the federal case in Washington.

"The Cheese(bro) really stands alone in Fulton County now," quipped Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis. "The upshot for Chesebro is that he no longer has Sidney Powell, a not evenly-keeled and patently guilty co-defendant, sitting next to him at trial. The downside is that the prosecution can focus on him as the mastermind of the plot, which may be harder to distract from now."

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained, "This is exactly what the Fulton County, DA hoped would happen: Scott Hall's plea would lead them to Powell, whose own plea deal could lead them to . . . bigger fish without trial dates."

The question will be whether Ken Chesebro will go to trial and fight back against the charges. Jury selection is expected to start on Friday.

"Literally Release the Kraken going on," said national security analyst Marcy Wheeler with a screen capture of the live stream.

Who knew Trump's most successful Reality TV Show was going to be a contest between lawyers," Wheeler also quipped.

" >First to be disbarred

>First to plead guilty to a plea deal

>First to plead to a felony

>First to declare BK"

https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-plea-deal-trump-georgia/

 

One teeny tiny note here.
When anyone testifies in court, they swear to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" so Powells plea deal can hardly be said to "force" her to tell the truth. Besides which, she's a lawyer and has an even greater obligation to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

But leave it to wrong story and American hater to suggest that a Trump attorney would tell less than "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" in court. No evidence or proof of such an allegation needed this way, eh?

 

I may have to make a correction. In order to prove the conspiracy Willis has to get convictions on two or more of the predicate crimes.

The gist of RICO in Georgia comes down to proving that there were at least two so-called “predicate crimes” that were committed as a part of an enterprise engaging in a “pattern of racketeering activity.” While that sounds a lot like federal law, the way the elements get defined under Georgia law make it far easier to prove.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/what-to-know-about-georgias-rico-law/3Y2PBKLHWFDMLKYFEURTHLBVZY/

Below is an explanation with the predicate crimes Willis is charging.

Georgia’s RICO law was put on the books in 1981. It was modeled after the federal version Congress enacted to put away Mafia bosses who had traditionally evaded criminal prosecution by tying them to the actions of their underlings who carried out crimes on their behalf.

Prosecutors must show a pattern of racketeering activity, carried out by two or more people seeking to control or protect an interest in some sort of enterprise. The enterprise could be something like a crime family or a gang, or it could be a property, an interest or an institution — including the presidency or a political campaign.

In the Fulton case, the indictment alleges that Trump and 18 others — along with 30 unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators — constituted a “criminal organization” whose members and associates engaged in various criminal activities to further the goals of the enterprise. The goal: to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.



Georgia’s RICO statute lists more than 40 so-called predicate crimes or acts that, when considered together, could qualify as a pattern of racketeering activity.

Among the predicate acts listed in this indictment: false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft and perjury.


https://www.ajc.com/politics/what-to-know-about-georgias-rico-law/3Y2PBKLHWFDMLKYFEURTHLBVZY/

 

Quite the day for plea deals involving Trump's attempted coup.

Michigan fake elector has charges dropped after making cooperation deal: report

Sarah K. Burris
October 19, 2023 3:23PM ET



(Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)


Michigan fake elector James Renner has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, according to the Associated Press.

Renner was among the 16 Republicans hit with charges including forgery following an ongoing investigation by Attorney General Dana Nessel. Now he will have the criminal charges dropped in exchange for an agreement to cooperate with the investigation.

Michigan was one of seven states where fake electors signed a document claiming Donald Trump won their state in the 2020 election. They are part of a federal investigation by special counsel Jack Smith, but Michigan's prosecutors are also looking at state charges.



The announcement was made in court on Thursday that charges against Renner were being dropped based on "an agreement between the parties."

Renner’s lawyer, Clint Westbrook, said that they “were excited with this result.”

There are 15 other fake electors who will still face trial.

Nessell spoke to a liberal group during a virtual event last year in which she said that the electors had been "brainwashed" and "genuinely" believed Trump won Michigan – leading to an unsuccessful attempt to have all charges dropped.

Read the full piece here.

https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-fake-elector-plea-deal/

 

Powell actually got a slap on the wrist. And most former prosecutors say that does not happen you've got something really good to give them in exchange. And its just been reported that as part of the plea deal Powell did a video taped interview last thing. The prosecutors have that but Powell cannot tell anyone else what she said.

'She has compelling evidence': Powell could reportedly be 'serious threat' to Trump

M.L. Nestel
October 19, 2023 8:02PM ET



(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)


She's a Trump turncoat.

Sidney Powell's decision to plead guilty to interfering with the presidential election in Georgia could do damage to Trump and the rest of the defendants, according to a New York Times report.

The paper cited two sources close to Trump stressing Powell's plea deal move because the attorney tried to back Trump as the victor in the 2020 presidential election "might be a more problematic trial witness than it seems, given her outlandish statements."

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As part of the deal, Powell will be spared serving time behind bars.

But she must testify at trial in Fulton County and must write an apology letter to Georgians.

“You don’t give a no-jail plea deal unless that person’s got something very good to say that will help your case against the others,” Chris Christie told USA Today while stumping in New Hampshire.

Her decision to flip for the prosecution comes after it was learned that attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 18 co-defendants charged alongside the 45th president in the Fulton County racketeering case, declined the offer that would have allowed him to dodge prison time and will go to trial.

Powell earned an unflattering reputation as an attorney who trumpeted bogus claims that painted Dominion Voting Systems as an amorphous Big Brother that cheated the 2020 election.

Powell is still facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion related to her alleged false claims that the company along with Smartmatic were in cahoots with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to undermine the integrity of the elections from conservatives.

She stated at the time: “The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out.”

The accusation was found to be baseless, according to the AP.

The Times' reporters Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman suggest that Powell's metamorphosis from a Trump circle esquire with a wild imagination to cooperating witness "presents a potentially serious threat" to the former president "given that she is in a position to speak firsthand about a range of schemes that he and his allies undertook to subvert the democratic process."



https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-serious-threat-trump/

 

She wasn't being charged with voter fraud. And it's common for those making plea deals to have some charges dropped with lessor crimes remaining...

You do realize that those people accessing the machines were not "hacking" into the machines. They were given full access freely.

 

“He crossed the line” – Former Attorney General Bill Barr says Trump’s lawyers informed him election scheming would land him in legal peril.

 

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans might want to tune in again. Kenneth Chesebro is standing there pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate.

I love the fact Georgia televises their trials.

 

Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia election case deal

Travis Gettys
October 20, 2023 12:26PM ET



Fulton County Sheriff's Office


Kenneth Chesebro, one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, has agreed to plead guilty, according to reports.

The conservative attorney and alleged architect of the "fake electors" scheme reached an agreement with prosecutors shortly before jury selection was set to begin in his Fulton County trial Friday, Lawfare's Anna Bower reported.


The Harvard-educated lawyer agreed to pay $5,000 in restitution and will serve five years of probation, and he must also complete 100 hours of community service and write a letter of apology to the people of Georgia.



Chesebro becomes the third Trump co-defendant to plead guilty in the sprawling election case.

He had been scheduled to stand trial with former campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who pleaded guilty Thursday and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in a deal similar to Chesebro's, while bail bondsman Scott Hall pleaded guilty last month and also agreed to cooperate with investigators.

Chesebro is the first Trump co-defendant to plead guilty to a felony, conspiracy to commit filing false documents.



https://www.rawstory.com/kenneth-chesebro-2666033986/

 

They all knew. They all knew there was no massive voter fraud. And they chose to lie about that. Which is why they are treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans.



Chesebro attorney argues client never believed Trump’s ‘big lie’ of election fraud
Nick Robertson
Sat, October 21, 2023 at 2:19 PM MDT·2 min read
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Kenneth Chesebro, one of former President Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the George election fraud case, didn’t truly believe the 2020 election was stolen, according to his attorney.

“First of all, Mr. Chesebro never believed in ‘The Big Lie,’” attorney Scott Grubmann said Saturday in an interview on MSNBC. “If you ask Mr. Chesebro today who won the 2020 presidential election, he would say Joe Biden.”

Chesebro became the second of Trump’s former lawyers to accept a plea agreement in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. He pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to file false documents relating to his attempts to set up a regime of fake electoral college votes in Georgia. His trial was scheduled to start Monday.


Prosecutors claimed the former lawyer wrote legal memos on behalf of the Trump campaign creating a false legal backing for the fake elector scheme.

As part of the plea, the former lawyer agreed to testify in future cases if called upon. That would include the trial of former President Trump, scheduled for early next year.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/cheney-blames-mccarthy-house-speaker-142452566.html
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He may not have believed in the big lie, but he sure gave it a lot of lip service.

The only reason he says Biden won now is to save his ass. It's nothing to do with doing what's right.

 

Georgia plea deals could put Trump's racketeering trial on the fast track: legal experts

Tom Boggioni
October 21, 2023 12:52PM ET



Donald Trump waves to supporters at the Peabody Opera House in Downtown Saint Louis in 2016. (Shutterstock.com)


Now that former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have accepted plea deals from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, which eliminates the need for lengthy months-long trials, the former president's own racketeering trial could be moved up.


In a column for Salon, legal experts Norm Ornstein and Joshua Kolb suggested that Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee suddenly has an open calendar to fill and could choose to move up any one of the RICO co-defendant's trials and that could include the one featuring the former president.

As they wrote, that would be an additional "negative" for Trump and his legal team who are now facing two former Trump lawyers serving as witnesses for the prosecution after the plea deals.



"The pleas open up the judge’s trial calendar for the next five months, potentially allowing him to schedule the trials of others in that window, including possibly the former president," they wrote.

As they note, Trump appears to have time on his hands too.

"The first Trump trial on these issues in federal court is not set until March. If Chesebro and Powell could get ready for trial on an accelerated basis, surely it’s not unreasonable for Trump and other possible defendants to prepare themselves to face a jury in Atlanta at some point in the coming months," they wrote.

The two added an accelerated trial could also impact Trump's re-election bid.

RELATED: Chesebro lawyer busted by MSNBC host for trying to whitewash his client's election crimes

"The twin admissions by Chesebro and Powell will now color the looming GOP presidential primary. That matters because the D.C. case will not be resolved until the primaries are over.," they suggested.

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-trial-2666038390/

 

I will be interested to see if Joyce Vance can make another prediction that no one else seems to be able to see coming. After Scott Hall pleaded guilty and took a plea deal to cooperate Vance went on the record and said Sidney Powell would be the next to flip on Trump. No pone else see,ed to think so but Vance was right. So it will be interesting to see if she can do it again.


Next Trump co-defendant expected to flip in Georgia trial singled out by former prosecutor

Tom Boggioni
October 22, 2023 10:38AM ET



Donald Trump (Photo by Nicholas Kamm for AFP)


Reflecting on the surprise plea deals accepted by attorney Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia racketeering case related to the 2020 presidential election, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance was asked on Sunday morning who will be the next to flip and possibly testify against Donald Trump.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Katie Phang, Vance singled out attorney Jenna Ellis, saying she has the most to lose and has already complained about the legal costs she has been running up.

Speaking with the host, Vance first explained, "There is less pressure now with no trial date set" for the other defendants.



"Some of the defendants whose names aren't dinner table conversation are likely to plead now that both Sidney Powell, who was involved there, has pleaded as well as Scott Hall, the first person to plead."

"But Katie, my pick for the next significant plea that we'll see is Jenna Ellis one of Trump's lawyers," she added. "She had a lot of access to Trump and other lawyers, she has been public about his failure to help with the payment of her legal fees, and as this drags on, that natural pressure may encourage her to go ahead and be the next of the lawyers to flip."



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-2666040689/

 

I have been nothing but impressed with Fanni Willis from the very beginning of her investigation. And what was most impressive is there were a dozen or more smaller court battles to compel people to testify and other legal issues and every time Willis walked into court she did so with the law on her side and won.

But then when Willis dropped her indictment it was so massive and sprawling with so many defendants I had to wonder with the rest of the legal experts I hoped she did not bite off more than she could chew. There were just too many defendants to go to trial all at the same time. And they only way Willis could pull it off is to flip a bunch of them and get them to plead out.

And I thought that would probably work for the smaller fish but for Willis to get pleas out of the bigger players she would need more than just the threat of going to trial. She would need the kind of evidence that they themselves knew would get them convicted. And I put a little marker on that for myself thinking we would soon know when the defense got discovery.

Which is what I think we are seeing with the Kraken Powell and Chesebro. When push came to shove Willis has the evidence.



How a contract with a law firm led to Sidney Powell's plea deal in Georgia: report

Sarah K. Burris
October 22, 2023 9:39PM ET



Sidney Powell could have avoided legal headaches if she didn't ignore Trump campaign memo calling her election claims bogus: report


The New Yorker has obtained nearly 400 pages in a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) report that details how Sidney Powell signed a contract obligating her to break the law.

Among the details in the piece outlining why Powell pleaded guilty is the revelation that she signed a contract with a data firm claiming that the work she was doing to obtain the necessary information for analysis was legal. Obtaining the data by breaking into the county headquarters was illegal. Taking the data was also illegal, as well as tampering with the electronic voting machines.

The report was obtained thanks to the election-related watchdog group the Coalition for Good Governance, which obtained the documents.

Powell, who pleaded guilty last week as part of a deal, will get six years of probation but no jail time. She faced up to 20 years behind bars. Trump has since claimed she never worked for him.

The Coalition for Good Governance's "computer-forensics expert confirmed that Coffee County’s elections server had been breached," said The New Yorker. "The chair of Georgia’s state-elections board at the time, a former federal judge named William Duffey, pushed, more than once, for the F.B.I. to get involved. But the agency punted, deferring to the G.B.I., despite the smaller agency’s modest resources and inability to cross state lines."

A year after the GBI began their Coffee County probe, Powell and 18 other co-defendants were named in a racketeering suit by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Among the revelations is that when Powell joined retired Gen. Michael Flynn at the property owned by Lin Wood, the Trump-supporting CEO of Cyber Ninjas, Doug Logan, met them there. Arizona later hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct their audit, but it was unknown at the time that the CEO was coordinating with those behind the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Cyber Ninjas is now defunct.

Also attending was Jim Penrose, who previously worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA).

The Wood "plantation" was described in the GBI report as “the central hub for the voter fraud information processing.” On Nov. 24, 2020, Wood tweeted: “I have worked closely with @SidneyPowell & others over recent weeks. The lawsuit Sidney will be filing tomorrow in GA speaks TRUTH.”

Now, Wood is spinning a different story, saying that he revealed all of the information to Willis as a witness in her investigation. He posted the information on his Telegram channel last week, "I was not working with them."

"Soon after the Tomotley gatherings began, Powell hired a data-services firm called SullivanStrickler," said the report. "The firm has insisted that it is 'politically agnostic,' and it has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but at least one of its top employees was an outspoken election denier."

It quoted the firm's head answering a question on the website Quora: “Why is the 2020 U.S. vote tabulation process taking multiple days?” His response began, “Quality fraud takes time.”

A judge in Clark County, Nevada, allowed the company to test voting equipment and programs after a pro-Trump lawyer brought another election lawsuit. They then went to Antrim County, Michigan where another judge said the Trump legal team could look at forensic imaging of the vote tabulators.

Despite being barred by the judge, in that case, from sharing any data, on Dec. 6, 2020, the COO, Paul Maggio, e-mailed Powell and Penrose saying that once they were paid, the Trump allies could download the data. Matthew DePerno, the lawyer who brought the suit in that case was indicted on a scheme involving voting machines taken from election offices and taken apart at motels and apartment rentals. He says he is not guilty.

It's unclear if Maggio could face anything for sharing the data despite the order by 13th Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer. He's still listed as the COO on the firm's website. Maggio was also with Powell and others when they sneaked into the Coffee County offices, CNN reported.

Powell was asked to foot the bill for SullivanStrickler.

The GBI report says, SullivanStrickler “did not do any type of independent due diligence to ensure the legality of their work.” According to one company executive, “the majority of SullivanStrickler’s customers were lawyers, who are officers of the court and as such, the affirmation in the agreement indicating the proper authority for the proposed work was suitable.”

They put the burden on Powell, as the client, to make sure they were following the law.

"Had Powell done due diligence, as the contract she signed with SullivanStrickler required, she would have known that the Georgia administrative code explicitly forbids anyone but employees of the election board to enter rooms where the election-management system or election equipment is stored," said The New Yorker report.

Misty Hampton, who is among the 19 indicted co-defendants, approved an Atlanta lawyer's "open records request" asking for the absentee ballot information. The New Yorker said that set in motion SullivanStrickler's arrival.

“Huge things starting to come together! Most immediately, we were granted access -by written invitation! - to the Coffee County Systens [sic]. Yay! Putting details together now," said Trump lawyer Katherine Friessin a Signal group chat that included a SullivanStrickler team member.

The GBI report says Hampton's "approval" wasn't legitimate, saying there wasn't an official invitation “generated or agreed upon by Coffee County Officials granting outside access to their voting equipment.”

“Per Jim Penrose’s request, we are on our way to Coffee County to collect what we can from the Election/Voting machines and systems," the SullivanStrickler COO emailed Powell.

The New Yorker cited former U.S. Attorney John K. Carroll, who has handled racketeering cases in New York, saying, “If Powell wrote the check with no knowledge of the illegality of the scheme, it would be a good defense. With knowledge of the scheme, it is an incredibly damning act. . . . Even the getaway driver is guilty of robbing the bank.”

It's how Powell was left holding the bag, as it were.

Donald Trump now claims he never hired Powell.

Read the extensive report here.

https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-contract-georgia-plea/




Trump lawyer caved after his defense became 'practically impossible': Columnist

Matthew Chapman
October 23, 2023 10:37AM ET



Fulton County Sheriff's Office


Former President Donald Trump's legal adviser Kenneth Chesebro was left with no choice but to cut a deal, wrote Jennifer Rubin for The Washington Post on Monday.

"What became of Chesebro’s arrogant insistence he could not be prosecuted for giving 'legal advice'?" wrote Rubin, a former conservative turned anti-Trump political commentator. "Simply put, Chesebro lost critical pretrial motions that made this defense practically impossible."

The fatal blow, wrote Rubin, was that Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee denied Chesebro's bid to exclude memos in which he outlined an illegal plot to stand fake electors in key battleground states — memos that are essentially evidence that the pro-Trump attorney knew what he was doing was illegal.

Chesebro argued that they were bound by attorney-client privilege, but as McAfee pointed out, that doesn't apply when attorney communications are the whole foundation of a case centering on whether an attorney broke the law.

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Moreover, Rubin continued, "Chesebro stood at risk of having other arguments barred," as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made a series of motions to exclude other defenses.

"Chesebro wanted to argue that he lacked the requisite intent needed to convict because he believed his own legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence could throw out electors for Joe Biden. He also wanted to put a legal expert on the stand to testify to the merits of his crackpot legal theory" — and there was a real chance the judge could reject all of that, leaving Chesebro with essentially no way to defend his actions.

The bottom line, she wrote, is that Chesebro was left without any other option — and the clock was ticking as his co-defendant, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, had just accepted a deal herself.

"In any event, we can expect Willis, with a total of three plea deals, to return to court, seek trial dates for remaining defendants and then ramp up pressure to snare more cooperating witnesses," concluded Rubin. "Even Trump must recognize she’s on a roll."



https://www.rawstory.com/chesebro-plea-deal/

 

This one should be fun to watch.



Georgia judge urged to quash Trump co-defendant's mountain of subpoenas

Matthew Chapman
October 23, 2023 4:20PM ET



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Fulton County Judge David McAfee has scheduled a hearing to examine the validity of various subpoenas filed by attorneys for Harrison Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump, a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case.

According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tamar Hallerman, "In recent weeks, Floyd's attorneys have issued a flurry of requests ... Among their asks: images of all absentee ballots cast in Fulton County in the 2020 prez election and their envelopes + reports from Dominion, which makes GA's voting machines" — and attorneys for all of the agencies holding this information want McAfee to quash these subpoenas as inappropriate.

This comes after three key co-defendants in the Georgia case — bail bondsman Scott Hall and attorney Sidney Powell, who were accused of a plot to illegally breach voting equipment in Coffee County, and attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who gave former President Donald Trump a memo outlining how to execute the fake electors plot — accepted plea deals with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.



Floyd, who was the only one of Trump's co-defendants to be briefly detained after booking, is accused of influencing witnesses and soliciting false statements.

He allegedly tried to coerce a false confession of voter fraud out of Atlanta election worker Ruby Freeman, who was targeted by a bevy of conspiracy theories after Rudy Giuliani falsely claimed she and her daughter were stuffing ballots from a briefcase.

As he was bailed out of jail, Floyd has been defiant, proclaiming that Willis was a "devil" who is orchestrating a "cover-up."



https://www.rawstory.com/harrison-floyd-2666047192/

 

Joyce Vance nailed it again. Jenna Ellis is pleading guilty down in Georgia right now.