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 p…

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.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    37·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • Maeve@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        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!”