Georgia has opened (ETA: criminal) investigation into Trump's election meddling and 'find me votes'

[Whyayeman]

Hampton’s attorney Jonathan Miller said he believes that the newly discovered emails and content will exonerate her.

I think maybe he should have taken a peep before making that rash statement.

Who is paying for this dunce?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump co-defendant Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election case​

Ellis, who had been facing two charges including violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering act, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday morning pleaded guilty in court Tuesday morning to a single felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. The deal allows her to avoid jail time in exchange for providing evidence that could potentially implicate other defendants and agreeing to testify in any future trials. Ellis worked closely with personal Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, another defendant in the case who faces 13 charges.

“If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges,” Ellis said [tearfully, we are told].

 

[essentialsaltes]

Rudy Giuliani, [flanked by guilty co-conspirators] personal attorney for President Trump, said the campaign would likely file a lawsuit in Georgia and was looking into filing lawsuits in New Mexico and Virginia.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The plea from Ellis implicated Giuliani in a state crime – lying to Georgia legislators by peddling false voter-fraud theories. This comes one week after Chesebro implicated Giuliani in the fake electors scheme that tried to subvert the Electoral College process. Giuliani denies wrongdoing.

According to court filings, Ellis admitted that she “intentionally aided and abetted” Giuliani and another Trump lawyer, Ray Smith, in “in knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully making … false statements to members of the Georgia Senate.”

Their false statements included baseless claims of massive voter fraud – including through mail-in ballots, and with thousands of supposedly illegal votes from felons, minors and “dead people.” Both Smith and Giuliani pleaded not guilty.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Arrest warrants were issued for all the defendants, Willis said,

The other defendants are ... Harrison Floyd, the director of Black Voices for Trump;

Harrison Floyd considering run for Congress.

Floyd’s comments were made during an appearance on Kandiss Taylor’s Jesus, Guns, and Babies show on Saturday.

“I’ve had a conversation about 3 different districts, about Georgia’s 2nd, Georgia 7th, and then the 14th primarying Marjorie Taylor Greene. I’ve had serious conversations with people in each district about all those different races.”

Floyd said he has settled on a district and will making an announcement soon and establish his residency. Georgia’s 2nd and 7th districts are held by Democrats while the 14th district is held by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.

(Floyd has also been charged with assaulting a federal agent attempting to serve him with a federal grand jury subpoena at his Rockville, Maryland apartment.)

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump ReTruthed a poster saying he *did* buy it. But since Truth™ is full of alternative facts, who knows what the truth is? Just because someone said an indicted felon illegally bought a handgun is pretty weak evidence that it happened. But maybe Jim and Comer will get right on this.

Well, somebody bought the Glock. And then auctioned it off at Mar-a-Lago.

[ETA: actually it's not clear that it's the same Glock. anyway: Donald Trump May Have Just Broken the Law]

Last weekend, an auction held at his Florida home saw the item, described as "a one of a kind Trump Glock from the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump," go up for bidding during a charity event. Pictures circulating on social media show the gun being presented at the auction, with news website Meidas Touch saying that bidding for the item began at $10,000.

"Trump will be in legal jeopardy if the gun actually was his and he knew it would be auctioned off. The fact that Trump attended the event is evidence that he knew of the sale.

"Trump will probably say, however, that the gun wasn't really his, and that the event organizers just used his name and mugshot to raise money for the charity," Aronberg added.

 

[KCfromNC]

"Trump will probably say, however, that the gun wasn't really his, and that the event organizers just used his name and mugshot to raise money for the charity," Aronberg added.

Another fraudulent transaction related to a Trump charity? Well, I'm shocked.

 

[essentialsaltes]

"I wasn't lying! I was just making factual statements unsupported by reality."

This really is the world that "alternative facts" takes us to.

Former President Donald Trump made a bizarre new claim when he told Univision he got 75 million votes, but then added “You can double it or almost you can triple it in terms of the real — the feeling.”

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This puts the phone call to Raffensberger in a different light. Trump felt he got more votes, and if only Brad felt that way too, he might be able to find them. Search your feelings, Brad. You know it to be true.

 

[Whyayeman]

Former President Donald Trump made a bizarre new claim when he told Univision he got 75 million votes, but then added “You can double it or almost you can triple it in terms of the real — the feeling.”

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This puts the phone call to Raffensberger in a different light. Trump felt he got more votes, and if only Brad felt that way too, he might be able to find them. Search your feelings, Brad. You know it to be true.

I feel that he didn't. Is that the same?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos​

[Jenna Ellis] told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” did not plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” according to a video recording obtained by The Washington Post.

Although some of the recordings were garbled, the portions of the four statements that The Post was able to review — from Ellis, lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, and Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall — offered many previously undisclosed details about the effort by Trump and his allies to reverse his defeat.

Asked why she thought Trump did that [i.e. ignored his own White House legal advisors and kept encouraging Sidney Powell], Powell replied, “Because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the White House. I mean, everybody else was telling him to pack up and go.”

Powell also said that Giuliani spoke of a plan to gain access to voting equipment at a Dec. 18, 2020, meeting with Trump and others in the Oval Office. And Hall appeared to implicate another defendant, lawyer Robert Cheeley, describing Cheeley as part of the “brain trust” planning the Coffee County scheme.

Powell described in vivid detail the Dec. 18, 2020, Oval Office meeting at which she sought the appointment as special counsel. She recalled calling Meadows the next morning to say, “Hey, when can I come pick up my badge and my key?” and said Meadows “essentially laughed” and said, “You know, it’s not going to happen.”

• Powell said that if Trump had appointed her special counsel to investigate election irregularities, as she had urged him to do in that Dec. 18 Oval Office meeting, she would have sought to seize election equipment and would have considered using the military to do so.
• Hall also revealed a previously undisclosed role in alleged harassment of Ruby Freeman... Hall said Cheeley approached him to help locate Freeman, and he surmised that he was tapped because of his skills tracking people down as a bail bondsman.

Ellis said she had not initially been privy to the “fake elector plot” and believed “it had been shielded from me specifically” — though she did not elaborate on why. Ellis said she became aware of the effort when she was added to a group text chain about the plan that included Giuliani, Epshteyn, Roman and Eastman.

Again citing concerns about attorney-client privilege, prosecutors asked Ellis not to divulge the substance of the text messages and limited their questioning about the conference call.

Prosecutors asked Hall whether he recalled discussing the violence that was unfolding at the U.S. Capitol that day [on Jan 6].

“I don’t have any recollection of conversations about that,” Hall replied.

Hall’s [own defense] lawyer exploded.

“Scott, Scott, listen,” he said. “That event was a gigantic, major event in the history of our nation. It involved the Trump campaign, the Trump supporters. This was something that is in everyone’s minds forever who watched it. So when you’re asked the question, and you go, ‘I might have, it could have been,’ I mean, everybody that I know was glued to the TV and couldn’t believe what was happening. How could they not be watching it in Cheeley’s office?”

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos​

[Jenna Ellis] told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” did not plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” according to a video recording obtained by The Washington Post.

Per @wing2000 :

After Trump case video leak, Georgia prosecutor seeks emergency seal for evidence​

“These confidential video recordings were not released by the State to any party other than the defendants charged in the indictment, pursuant to the discovery process as required by law,” the filing said. “The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant.”

Prosecutors said they would no longer share “confidential video recordings of proffers” to any defense attorneys involved in the case and said they must view those statements in person at the district attorney’s office.

 

[Hank77]

“These confidential video recordings were not released by the State to any party other than the defendants charged in the indictment, pursuant to the discovery process as required by law,” the filing said. “The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant.”

Trump and the crew act like thugs/mobsters. They broke the law and continue to break the law because they think Trump is above the law.

Prosecutors said they would no longer share “confidential video recordings of proffers” to any defense attorneys involved in the case and said they must view those statements in person at the district attorney’s office.

Good, they've proven how scheming, dishonest, and vicious they can be.

 

[Whyayeman]

Good, they've proven how scheming, dishonest, and vicious they can be.

We knew this. There is the question of the impact this will have on Trump lovers.

It must be getting very difficult to to keep the faith.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The indictment, which came after grand jurors heard roughly 10 hours of testimony Monday, contains 41 criminal counts. The other defendants are... former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton;

Misty Hampton’s lawyer admits to releasing Trump plea bargain videos​

Fulton DA Fani Willis is seeking an emergency motion to stop the distribution of leaked videos.​

Jonathan Miller, the attorney representing Misty Hampton in Donald Trump’s historic racketeering trial in Atlanta, admitted Wednesday afternoon he leaked videos to one national media outlet.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The other defendants are ... Illinois pastor Stephen Cliffguard Lee;

One of Trump's co-defendants, Reverend Stephen Cliffgard Lee, announced at an event last week that he has no plans to take a plea deal in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis relating to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election in the county, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"I am not going to plead out to a lie," Lee said at a fundraiser hosted by the Families of Faith Ministries. "I'm not going to cooperate with evil. This is bigger than me."

 

[Hank77]

Misty Hampton’s lawyer admits to releasing Trump plea bargain videos​

Fulton DA Fani Willis is seeking an emergency motion to stop the distribution of leaked videos.​

Jonathan Miller, the attorney representing Misty Hampton in Donald Trump’s historic racketeering trial in Atlanta, admitted Wednesday afternoon he leaked videos to one national media outlet.

So he managed to get his name in the news. I heard his confession, (paraphrased), "I need to sleep tonight, I need to confess, it was I judge."

 

[essentialsaltes]

Georgia prosecutor asks judge to revoke bond of Trump co-defendant ​

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis said Harrison Floyd had tried to intimidate potential witnesses in the case​

The motion included screenshots of several social media messages they claim were posted by Floyd on his account on X, formerly Twitter, that mentioned several Georgia election officials and others who are likely witnesses in the case.

The prosecution motion claims Floyd repeatedly posted social media messages in recent weeks targeting Ruby Freeman, one of those workers. Prosecutors said Floyd’s recent comments about Freeman amounted to witness intimidation and had made her “the subject of renewed threats of violence from third parties.”

The filing also cites comments Floyd made on a conservative podcast about Jenna Ellis, a former Trump campaign attorney who recently pleaded guilty in the case and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Floyd appeared to respond to Willis’s motion on X, sharing a video of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at his confirmation hearing. “Clarence Thomas was right,” Floyd wrote. “This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. It is a high tech lynching for an uppity black.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

Georgia prosecutors oppose plea deals for Trump, Meadows and 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.

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.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump Georgia 2020 election case motions hearing​

Lawyers for fake electors in Georgia argue legal theories that previously fell flat in federal court​

 

[Whyayeman]

Trump Georgia 2020 election case motions hearing​

Lawyers for fake electors in Georgia argue legal theories that previously fell flat in federal court​

It is all procedural, isn't it? No ringing declarations of innocence, just (more) obfuscation.

Delay, delay, delay; the first and only strategy of the guilty.