1- Read.
The Epoch Times
Trump Attorney Unfazed by Guilty Pleas, Says Lawyer's Deal Was Result of 'Pressure'
QUOTE: Steve Sadow, lead counsel for former President Donald Trump, said the guilty pleas in the Fulton County racketeering case against the former president and several others could only be "favorable" to his defense.
On Aug. 14, 18 defendants were indicted alongside President Trump for allegedly violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act plus 40 other counts. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis claimed their efforts to challenge the 2020 election results "constituted a criminal organization."
Bail bondsman Scott Hall was the first to accept a plea bargain. Then in the days before defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were to go to trial, they both accepted plea bargains as well.
All three had originally been charged with seven felony counts; Ms. Powell and Mr. Hall under the same charges, while Mr. Chesebro was charged with separate crimes beyond RICO.
None of them pleaded guilty to RICO in the plea deals. Mr. Hall's case was negotiated down to five misdemeanors, Ms. Powell's six misdemeanors, and Mr. Chesebro one felony count: count 15 of the indictment, "conspiracy to commit filing false documents."
"It appears to me that the guilty plea to count 15 of the Fulton County indictment was the result of pressure by Fani Willis and her team and the prosecution's looming threat of prison time," Mr. Sadow told The Epoch Times. "However, it is very important for everyone to note that the RICO charge and every other count was dismissed."
Mr. Sadow had told media outlets on Thursday that Ms. Powell's testimony could only be favorable in President Trump's case if she indeed testifies truthfully. "Once again, I fully expect that truthful testimony would be favorable to my defense strategy," he added after Mr. Chesebro's plea.
2- Watch.
YouTube
Don Brown: Sidney Powell's Misdemeanor Plea is a Major Defeat for Corrupt Prosecutor Fannie Willis
3- Consider.
Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social 𝟬𝟵:𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟮/𝟮𝟯
Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLEN, AND OUR COUNTRY IS BEING ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IT!!!
Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even reaching out to ask the Trump Campaign ...
MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS. In fact, she would have been conflicted.
Ms. Powell did a valiant job of representing a very unfairly treated and governmentally abused General Mike Flynn, but to no avail.
His prosecution, despite the facts, was ruthless. He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon!
4- This was posted on Saturday but is worth repeating
Margot Cleveland at The Federalist
Sidney Powell's Plea Proves Fulton County DA Went Nuclear To Get Trump
QUOTE: The bottom line is this: Willis basically extorted a guilty plea from Powell by charging her with seven serious felonies, including a RICO conspiracy count, two counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud, and one count each of conspiracy to commit computer theft, conspiracy to commit computer trespass, conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state.
With a jury culled from deep-blue Fulton County, the risk of a conviction on even one of the felony counts, and the consequential loss of her law license, would be just too great of a chance for any defendant to take — especially when the plea only involved misdemeanors that would be discharged from Powell's record following probation. Under these circumstances, it would have been lunacy for Powell to have rejected the plea offer.
But what reason would Willis have to offer such a favorable deal? None, if Willis truly believed Powell committed the felonies for which she was charged and Willis had the evidence to prove them. After all, it is not as if Powell's testimony is needed to establish the other crimes charged against the other defendants.
So why let Powell off with what would be a slap on the wrist if Powell had committed the felonies as charged? The answer seems clear: Powell hadn't committed the felonies, and Willis never thought she had. But she overcharged Powell to add gravitas to the supposed election conspiracy claims and to make an offer for a first-offender misdemeanor plea deal an offer too good to refuse.
The Fulton County prosecutor played the same gambit with another defendant, Scott Hall, who reached a similar first-offender deal last month. How many other defendants Willis will seek to squeeze guilty pleas from using this ploy remains to be seen, but it is unlikely to work for several of the defendants because the crimes for which they are being charged are ones that fail as a matter of law.
By charging the defendants with multiple felonies, however, Willis made it exceedingly difficult for them to chance a conviction. And she'd likely be happy with misdemeanor first-offender pleas from everyone — until she gets to Trump — proving Willis didn't just weaponize the criminal justice system. She went nuclear.
