States and Federal officials bringing indictments against Trump and other Republicans for voter fraud

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[China]

Georgia prosecutors oppose plea deals for Trump, Meadows and Giuliani

 

Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial.

 

The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

 

Aside from those three, the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis has opened plea talks or has left open the possibility of talks with the remaining co-defendants in the hope that they ultimately decide to become cooperating witnesses against the former president, the people said.

 

The previously unreported decision has not been communicated formally and could still change, for instance, if prosecutors shift strategy. But it signals who prosecutors consider their main targets, and how they want to wield the power of Georgia’s racketeering statute to their advantage.

 

As the figure at the top of the alleged conspiracy, Trump was always unlikely to get a deal. But the inclusion of Meadows and Giuliani on that list, at least for now, provides the clearest roadmap to date of how prosecutors intend to take the case to trial.

 

On Monday, former Trump lawyer and co-defendant John Eastman asked the judge to allow him to go to trial separately from the former president, and earlier than the August 2024 trial date proposed by prosecutors. Eastman also asked for the final plea deal deadline to be moved forward.

 

The court filing from Eastman reflected the apparent trepidation among a growing number of Trump allies charged in Fulton county about standing trial alongside Trump as a major Rico ringleader, a prospect widely seen as detrimental to anyone other than Trump.

 

The prosecutors on the Trump case appear convinced that they are close to gaining more cooperating witnesses. In recent weeks, one of the people said, prosecutors privately advised the judge to delay setting a trial date because some co-defendants may soon plead out, one of the people said.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

The best plea deals already were given. If the underlying flotsam defendants don't want more prison time and losing their voting rights, they better get on board the plea deal train.

[skinsmarydu]

Reminds me of this.   

 

 

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[China]

Trump’s Georgia trial should be kicked to 2029 if he wins the election, his lawyer says

 

If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, he can’t face a criminal trial in Georgia until at least 2029 — after he leaves the presidency — his Atlanta-based defense attorney argued Friday.

 

“I believe that the [Constitution’s] supremacy clause and his duties as president of the United States — this trial would not take place at all until after his term in office,” said Steve Sadow, Trump’s defense lawyer in the racketeering case in which the former president and many of his allies are charged with conspiring to subvert Georgia’s certification of the presidential election in 2020.

 

Sadow’s comment came as the judge queried lawyers for Trump and his co-defendants about the timing of a potential trial. By alluding to the supremacy clause, Sadow was invoking the principle that state interests must generally yield to federal duties. How that principle would apply to a state’s attempt to prosecute a sitting president is an untested constitutional question.

 

On the other hand, Sadow sharply protested a proposal by Fulton County prosecutors to begin the trial in August 2024, saying that would amount to “election interference” by keeping Trump off the campaign trail for the final months of the election.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Thankfully we won't have to wait that long.

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[China]

It’s a ‘silly notion’ that Trump’s Georgia case should pause for the election, Willis tells the AP

 

The district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia says she has a duty to file charges against anyone who violates the law and that it’s a “silly notion” that the former president’s case should be paused just because he is running for office.

 

In an interview this week with The Associated Press, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis declined to say whether she or her team has been in touch with U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who has filed federal charges in an election interference case against Trump in Washington. She also raised the possibility that more of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia case could take plea deals, further paring down the number who could go on trial with him.

 

Willis is seeking an August trial date for Trump and his co-defendants, a time frame that would put the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in court defending himself in the months, weeks and even days leading up to the November general election. Trump lawyer Steve Sadow has said that if Trump is the nominee, that would be “the most effective election interference in the history of the United States.”

 

Willis brushed off that idea, pointing out that prosecutors all over the country are always investigating people for various crimes and that they do not stop doing so just because someone runs for office.

 

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[Larry]

"But, Your Honor.  It might hurt my client's efforts to gain power if the voters hear actual sworn testimony about what he did, the last time he had the job."  

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[TheGreatBuzz]

Is that a new deal or the limited we already knew about?

[EmirOfShmo]

24 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Is that a new deal or the limited we already knew about?

 

As soon as I hit submit I regretted posting it as it is from a while back. Sorry about that...

[China]

These have to be the lamest most insincere apology letters ever.  Pointless.

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

2 minutes ago, China said:

These have to be the lamest most insincere apology letters ever.  Pointless.

 

 

 

I thought the whole idea of including apology letters in the plea deal was stupid to begin with, this just lets me know I was right. I wish this could be used as a reason to not honor the plea deal and rescind it immediately.

[China]

Appeals court rejects Mark Meadows’ attempt to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court

 

A federal appeals court has rejected former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ attempt to move his Georgia election interference criminal case to federal court.

 

The opinion of the three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, delivered by a conservative jurist appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, is a resounding blow to arguments raised by Meadows that his case should be moved because the allegations in the indictment were connected to his official duties in the Trump White House.

 

“At bottom, whatever the chief of staff’s role with respect to state election administration, that role does not include altering valid election results in favor of a particular candidate,” wrote Chief Judge William Pryor.

 

“So there is no ‘casual connection’ between Meadows’s ‘official authority’ and his alleged participation in the conspiracy,” Pryor added.

 

Pryor said that the federal removal statute at issue “does not apply to former federal officers,” but that even if it did, “the events giving rise to this criminal action were not related Meadows’s official duties.”

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

I think the terms of Chesbro's cooperation deal should be made public (maybe they have & I haven't seen them).

 

Trump campaign lawyer testified in Nevada fake electors case to avoid prosecution, transcripts show

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The lawyer who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign's fake elector scheme in 2020 was a target in a criminal investigation in Nevada, but his name was removed from the indictment in exchange for his cooperation with authorities, according to newly released transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings in Las Vegas.

The documents made public Sunday show that in late November, Kenneth Chesebro testified to a grand jury in Clark County, Nevada, about the plot that ultimately led to the indictments this month of six Nevada Republicans, who made a last-ditch attempt to keep then-President Donald Trump in power by sending a phony electoral certificate to the National Archives.

The fake electors — involved in the GOP at the state or county level — are charged in state court with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument.

Chesebro's deal with state Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford's office, which investigated the case, comes on the heels of Chesebro's plea agreement with prosecutors in Georgia, where he was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with participating in efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lawyer-testified-nevada-fake-021547049.html

 

 

[LadySkinsFan]

Maybe the last place he talks about the fake electors puts him in prison.

[China]

Trump Georgia Co-Defendant’s Lawyers File Notice to Withdraw From RICO Case

 

Attorneys for Trevian Kutti, one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, filed notice on Monday night they no longer intend to represent the embattled publicist who has gained notoriety for her outlandish public statements.

 

The three-page notice provides no rationale for her Chicago and Atlanta-based lawyers seeking to jump ship. Reached by phone, Darryl Cohen, Kutti’s Atlanta-based attorney, said that “in order to have a good lawyer-client relationship, the client has to listen, the client has to be on board and you have to be paid.” 

 

“All these things have to happen,” Cohen added. “I'm not saying any of those things did or didn't happen, but you can extrapolate.”

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

 

[China]

Trump campaign lawyer testified in Nevada fake electors case to avoid prosecution, transcripts show

 

The lawyer who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s fake elector scheme in 2020 was a target in a criminal investigation in Nevada, but his name was removed from the indictment in exchange for his cooperation with authorities, according to newly released transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings in Las Vegas.

 

The documents made public Sunday show that in late November, Kenneth Chesebro testified to a grand jury in Clark County, Nevada, about the plot that ultimately led to the indictments this month of six Nevada Republicans, who made a last-ditch attempt to keep then-President Donald Trump in power by sending a phony electoral certificate to the National Archives.

The fake electors — involved in the GOP at the state or county level — are charged in state court with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument.

 

Chesebro’s deal with state Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford’s office, which investigated the case, comes on the heels of Chesebro’s plea agreement with prosecutors in Georgia, where he was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with participating in efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

He's going to testify against all of them, when he should be the one in prison for creating this non-sense.

[Corcaigh]

17 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

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[China]

^^^^More:

 

Donald Trump Faces Prospect of Fifth Indictment

 

Donald Trump could be facing a fifth criminal indictment following reports he pressured Michigan election figures to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

 

According to The Detroit News, citing a leaked recording of a phone call by someone the publication said was present for the conversation, Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, not to sign the certification of the election results in the state, which Biden won by 154,000 votes. It reports Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, was also involved in the call.

 

Newsweek contacted representatives for Trump by email and McDaniel by social media to comment on this story. Newsweek has been unable to independently verify the recording. The Detroit News reported that spokespeople for Palmer, McDaniel and Trump did not dispute a summary of the call. Hartmann died in 2021.

 

The former president and GOP frontrunner is facing a federal case brought by special counsel Jack Smith alleging he worked to overturn the results of the election, won by President Joe Biden. Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing a congressional proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

 

While the recording has been described by attorney Joe Gallina as "perfect evidence" against the former president and "another smoking gun" in the federal trial, other commentators have speculated that the evidence could be grounds for a fifth criminal indictment on bribery charges.

 

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