Second Update (Jenna Ellis pleads guilty):
Third Trump lawyer, Jenna Ellis, has now also made a guilty plea deal in GA.
CNNreports with her short tearful guilty plea (video clip [click here] 1:11 minutes).
Key parts from CNN:
Ellis delivered a tearful statement to the judge Tuesday
while pleading guilty, disavowing her participation in Trump’s unprecedented
attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying
in part: “If I knew then what I knew
now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election
challenges. I look back on this experience with deep remorse.”
Ellis was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered
to pay $5,000 in restitution.
The development comes
after back-to-back guilty pleas last week in the sprawling
case from former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who
helped devise the “fake electors plot.”
These three plea deals are
a monumental step forward for Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who charged the
case in August and is preparing for trials against Trump, his former attorney
Rudy Giuliani, his chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top figures. (They
have all pleaded not guilty).
Ellis, Chesebro, and Powell all agreed to testify on behalf
of the prosecution at future trials. By flipping, these onetime Trump insiders
are now on track to become major Trump nemeses. They are all lawyers and can
shed light on what was happening behind the scenes in 2020. Prosecutors originally charged 19 people in the sprawling GA case.
So far, four have pleaded guilty.
My 2 Cents: I don’t know but I suspect others will follow suit to make a deal to stay out of prison.
Next up perhaps: Rudy Giuliani – we shall see. Stay tuned.
THE ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS BELOW:
Quick update on the same two flippers who now endanger Trump
and a few others with this headline article from SALON.com (formatted to fit the
blog and the original post below):
“MAGA lawyers take a sweetheart deal for democracy. Trump should be
frightened”
Within 24 hours, two of the lawyers most closely identified
with the January 6 attack on the 2020 election and Capitol coup attempt officially
jumped off the Trump MAGA train.
On Friday (October 20), Kenneth Chesebro pled guilty in a Georgia courtroom. The plea is momentous because Chesebro was the main architect of Trump's “coup in search of a legal theory,” as a federal judge has called Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Chesebro’s admission of guilt and promise of cooperation send a stark message to Trump: “The erroneous legal theory central to his coming prosecutions was part of a criminal scheme.”
That from Chesebro taken with Sidney Powell’s surprise guilty plea the day before (October 19) shows that they have now become the first to flip on Trump.
That basically means two of the main actors in the 2020
election conspiracy have just become witnesses against Trump, who now faces an
enhanced prospect of conviction as a result.
Though Chesebro kept a lower profile than Trump’s other
collaborators, he provided the legal bedrock of the coup attempt. Chesebro
began his involvement in the 2020 election scheme in WI, where he provided the
Trump campaign’s attorney there with legal advice in recount litigation.
After those measures failed, Chesebro zeroed in on the
presidential electors. While another of Trump’s outside lawyers, John Eastman, who became the face of the “overreaching alternate scheme (the so-called “fake electors”
plot – replace false list of EC electors for the duly elected/appointed EC
electors) was John Eastman’s ideas that were in fact originally developed by
Chesebro.
That scheme as we all now know contended that the presiding
officer in Congress on January 6 – either the vice president, then Mike Pence would
step aside, and the President pro-tempore of the Senate, could refuse to
count legitimate and certified electoral votes with the goal of perpetuating
Trump as president with the fake list.
That theory might have seemed
far-fetched, but Chesebro — and Trump by extension — appeared poised to defend
it — that until now that Chesebro has pled guilty.
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THE ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS BELOW:
From CNN this major story headline:
“Trump
attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case”
Trump insider attorney, Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty and gets a 6-year probation, plus, and has to testify truthfully against several other co-defendants including Trump.
I’m also sure that Trump after hearing
that news and now more so since Kenneth Chesebro (see his story below) has
flipped too just like Powell pleaded guilty, too, is probably going totally bananas
and losing a lot of sleep.
Details on Powell and
Chesebro follow:
Powell’s deal:
(Chesebro’s
deal follows below after Powell’s notes). Trump’s former attorney,
Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty in the GA election subversion case, one day
before her trial was set to start.
As part of her guilty
plea, Powell is admitting her role in the January 2021 breach of election
systems in rural Coffee County, GA.
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.
She pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanors – six counts
of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election
duties – a significant reduction from the seven felonies she initially faced. Fulton
County prosecutors are recommending a sentence of six years on probation.
Powell will also be required to testify at future trials,
write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia, pay nearly $9,000 in
restitution and fines, and turn over documents.
Trump, a co-defendant in the Fulton County case, does not
appear in Powell’s plea documents and was not mentioned at the brief plea
hearing Thursday.
After the 2020 election, Powell had peddled conspiracy
theories about purported fraud and false claims about millions of votes being
flipped in a global scheme against Trump that involved Venezuela and other
foreign powers.
She is now the second person in the sprawling racketeering case to plead guilty. GA citizen and Bail Bondsman, Scott Hall, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify at future trials.
The other 17 defendants,
including Trump, have pleaded not guilty.
Powell admitted taking actions after the 2020 election “for
the purpose of willfully tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulating
machines” and “with the intention of taking and appropriating information,
data, and software, the property of Dominion Voting Systems Corporation,” according to new court filings.
She is also admitted to hiring a data forensics firm and
sending its employees to Coffee County so they could unlawfully access
government computers with the purpose of “examining personal voter data, with
knowledge that such examination was without authority,” according to the
filings.
Her attorneys had vehemently rejected prosecutors’ claims that she orchestrated the Coffee County breach. They’ve said at pretrial hearings that “prosecutors are incorrect” and “the evidence will show that she was not the driving force behind the incident.”
One single day after Sydney Powell’s guilty plea (listed above)
attorney Kenneth Chesebro (via FOX News),
one of the 19 co-defendants in Georgia's election interference case (the “fake
electors” scheme) against Trump and his allies and others, has become
the third defendant to plead guilty just before his case was set to go on
trial.
Chesebro’s deal:
According to the negotiated terms, Chesebro will: (1) receive 5 years of
probation; (2) pay $5,000 restitution; (3) complete 100 hours of community
service; (4) write an apology letter; and (5) testify as needed against former Trump
and the other remaining 15 co-defendants.
My 2 Cents: My educated guess
based on a lot former prosecutors viewing this news the same way believe: “Powell’s
deal apparently was a message to others like Chesebro to get in line and make
your deals now or get big prison terms after a trial.”
We shall see, but make no mistake about it – Trump surely is a nervous wreck at this news and the testimony Powell and Chesebro are apt to reveal.
Finally, I firmly believe that Trump’s days are numbered as well as his prison and cell numbers.
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