2y ago

Trump power grab comes into focus in leaked Georgia videos

Leaked videos showing four Georgia defendants speaking to prosecutors in the racketeering case involving former President Trump are bringing into focus the ex-president’s desperate grab for power after losing the 2020 presidential race.

“The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances,” then-White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino told ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, according to Ellis’s testimony to Fulton County prosecutors a day before she entered her guilty plea.

“We are just going to stay in power,” he said. The videos, first reported by ABC News, place Trump at the top of the chain of command of efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia in his favor.

The defendants’ proffer statements bolster the narrative Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis laid out in her 98-page indictment charging Trump and 18 co-defendants with joining a criminal enterprise bent on keeping Trump in the White House.

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2y ago

Trump power grab comes into focus in leaked Georgia videos

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A trial date has not yet been scheduled in Georgia, though Willis indicated Tuesday that a future trial could stretch into early 2025. Trump’s first criminal trial could get underway in just four months, with his federal case over efforts to overturn the election scheduled to begin on March 4.
Won't he be like... eternal supreme leader by then?
- Yeah, that will be interesting.
  Curious if any constitutional experts can weigh in on how that looks. I assume the sc would have to weigh in.
  Like he can't pardon himself since it's a state crime, but I can't imagine a president sitting behind bars.
  
  Like he can't pardon himself since it's a state crime, but I can't imagine a president sitting behind bars.
  Nobody can, because no president has done what he's done. Even Nixon, the other obvious presidential criminal, didn't try to cling to the presidency. We don't have a clear law, precedent, or mechanism to guide what we're supposed to do, so here we are, on the raggedy edge.
  
  He can't pardon himself anyway. Nobody can. He may say he's doing it, and his followers and pet judges will accept it if he does, but please don't normalize the notion that pardoning oneself is any more real than dividing by zero.
  
  Start imagining it. The only thing ever manifested began with “what if.” For example, what if we got as belligerent about demanding the laws be enforced on all corruption, rather than just poors doing whatever they do to survive and cope?
What's monumental about those videos is one of the defendants leaked them (at whose behest, I don't know). It could possibly intimidate future witnesses, so "learning for double sure that Trump was trying to cling to power" (duh) is really not the point people should take away from them.
- The point is to give maga world a reason to use violence to prevent these people from testifying in the future, sadly.
  
  It is sad, and more righteously so, infuriating that people are so sad and cowed (Looking at the “legal” apparatus, from doj to fbi to legislators to courts). You know who’s mad enough to do something, anything, are those who would crown him supreme dictator; the left are still wandering around with “vote blue!”
- Sidney Powell. That bitch is as dumb as she looks.
what he is known for
gabbing it by the p***y
- Are your parents watching you type or something?
  
  Yh, c***g ag on ly is jt s**y
- Don't forget the raping, which a court found he definitely did. I don't know why that isn't mentioned in every article. "Proven rapist, Donald Trump..."
  
  You can't talk like that here!
  You have to say rp* or no one will know what you mean
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Leaked videos showing four Georgia defendants speaking to prosecutors in the racketeering case involving former President Trump are bringing into focus the ex-president’s desperate grab for power after losing the 2020 presidential race.
The videos, first reported by ABC News, place Trump at the top of the chain of command of efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia in his favor.
“The entire idea behind the indictment is that Donald Trump was driving the bus and doing so in a way that was only intended to secure power,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University.
ABC News on Monday afternoon published videos of Ellis and another former Trump lawyer, Sidney Powell, giving confidential interviews to prosecutors.
Chesebro also distanced himself from Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, two other defendants in the case, and described the Capitol attack — at which he was present — as the “worst possible thing that could happen,” according to the Post.
But with numerous ex-Trump lawyers testifying that they continually sought out ways to reverse the election results at the former president’s behest, such an argument becomes much more challenging to make.
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