2y ago

Attorney Explains 'Most Significant' Fact of Trump Lawyers' Guilty Pleas

www.newsweek.com /neal-katyal-explains-trumps-lawyers-no-jail-guilty-pleas-1836698

Aww Yiss. Mothaflippin schadenfreude

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“Most significant” fact is that Trump directed them to do the crimes. Their deal doesn’t really matter, their testimony will be damning.
- Thoughts and prayers 🙏
- Unless they renege? What would be the consequences?
  
  You get resentenced by the judge for what you've pled guilty for and have a trial for what the prosecution withdrew.
  
  Lots of prison time.
Clickbait title.
"To me, what's most significant about both of these deals is that they are no jail deals. So one, Sidney Powell pleads guilty to some misdemeanors and Chesebro to a felony, but neither of them are serving jail. The only reason you would ever agree to that as a prosecutor is if they are providing evidence against higher ups," Katyal, the former acting solicitor general of the United States during the Obama administration, said.
- Note that the same crimes were committed in other states where they may not be offered the same deal. They both may end up doing time for election fraud, just not in Georgia.
  
  Are those states likely to care about law and order in this particular instance?
  Honest question.
- It's not, though? The most significant fact is that despite misdemeanors and a felony, neither will serve any jail time. That's consistent with the headline.
  
  The title is clickbait because it doesn't say what "the most significant fact" is. You have to click and go through 3 paragraphs of waffle to get to that.
His lawyers have tried to spin it with half truths. They said that the RICO indictment was "dismissed" as if there wasn't enough evidence to support it, when all these guilty pleas do is actually make the RICO charges beyond a reasonable doubt. They prove the conspiracy, as one was hacking the voting machines while the other was putting forth false electors. It's two major legs of the RICO case that have just been linked to Trump.
"Not news that he can spin" have you been in a coma the last 7 years
- Seriously. He doesn't need to spin. Spin is distorting the truth but keeping it plausible, if false. He will just brazenly lie, explicitly say America would be better off without certain judges and prosecutors (violating gag orders with no real consequences), his supporters will eat it up, some of them will try to harm these people, and he'll sit back and act surprised, disinterested, or flat out say they deserved it. We have seen it over and over.

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