Kenneth Chesebro, a Donald Trump-aligned attorney who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, is pleading guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.
The plea deal is another major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Thursday, former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell also pleaded guilty. …
A source familiar with the discussions said the likelihood of Chesebro taking a deal increased after his co-defendant Sidney Powell made a surprise turn and pleaded guilty herself on Thursday, leaving Chesebro as the sole defendant whose trial was scheduled to begin Friday.
An attorney who worked to undermine the results of the 2020 election, Chesebro helped develop the Trump’s campaign’s plot to put forward unauthorized slates of GOP electors in Georgia and six other states. (In previous court filings, Chesebro’s lawyers have denied that he devised the plan.)
[Not really a surprise. Powell’s plea deal required her to testify against all of her co-defendants in Fani Willis’ RICO indictment, and she left Chesebro twisting in the wind yesterday. Powell got off *very* easy, which suggests that her testimony is going to be very valuable for Willis. And if Chesebro was allowed to cop a plea today, then he’s clearly not the target Willis had in mind with the plea deal for Powell. — Ed]
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