Tag Archives: Georgia

CNN reports: Fulton County prosecutors have discussed potential plea deals with at least six additional co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election, multiple sources tell CNN. The strategy by District Attorney Fani Willis’ office is clear: get as many co-defendants as possible to flip on the former president, leaving Trump and perhaps a few …

The Meidas Touch reports: Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis has struck a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors to plead guilty in the Trump Georgia RICO case. Ellis has agreed to plead guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Expect a probationary sentence like the one received by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro. Also, expect this …

The New York Times reports: Few defenders of Donald J. Trump promoted election fraud theories after his 2020 defeat as stridently as Sidney K. Powell. In high-profile appearances, often alongside other members of the Trump legal team, she pushed conspiracies involving Venezuela, Cuba and China, as well as George Soros, Hugo Chávez and the Clintons, while baselessly claiming that voting …

Yahoo News reports: The judge presiding over the upcoming damages trial against Rudy Giuliani said Friday she will tell jurors that the former Trump lawyer intentionally hid financial documents and other records in defiance of court orders. In a five-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said the move was necessary given “Giuliani’s continued and flagrant disregard of this Court’s …

The Huffington Post reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis once again shot down House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday, calling his ongoing attempts to wade into the prosecution of former President Donald Trump “ignorant,” “troubling” and an abuse of power. “A charitable explanation of your correspondence is that you are ignorant of the United States and …

The Associated Press reports: The Georgia prosecutor who has accused former President Donald Trump and others of trying to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state is seeking to call Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as witnesses in a trial for two of the defendants scheduled to begin later this month. Fulton County …

The Messenger reports: Trevian Kutti, a one-time publicist for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, in a since-deleted social media post claimed she’ll be Donald Trump’s next press secretary if he’s elected in 2024. “I look forward to redeeming Black women in politics by becoming Press Secretary to the 47th President of the United States @realDonaldTrump,” Kutti wrote on …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Georgia Senate Republicans filed a formal complaint to punish Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she sought charges against former President Donald Trump under a new law aimed at sanctioning “rogue” prosecutors. The complaint contends Willis “improperly cherry-picked cases to further her personal political agenda” and asks the newly formed Prosecuting Attorneys Qualification Commission to …

Atlanta First News reports: A Milton private school teacher was arrested after a 12-year-old girl was inappropriately touched at a Walmart in August, according to the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office. Kyle George, 43, was arrested and charged with sexual battery against a child under 16, the sheriff’s office said. According to booking reports, George was booked on Sept. 25 and was …

ABC News reports: A second lawyer for Rudy Giuliani is seeking to depart his legal team in Georgia, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News, a move that would appear to leave the former New York City mayor without any local lawyers in the state. A motion to withdraw has been submitted to the clerk, the sources said. A …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County prosecutors are floating plea deals to a number of defendants in the election interference case involving former President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the proposals. At least a handful of the now 18 defendants have received offers from the District Attorney’s office — or prosecutors have touched base with their attorneys …

CNN reports: The Fulton County district attorney’s office has issued a subpoena to former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik to testify in the first trial later this month in the case stemming from election subversion plots in Georgia, according to his lawyer. But Kerik’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, is demanding that his client be granted immunity in exchange for testifying, …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Friday denied a motion by former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro to toss out emails and memos he wrote detailing a plan to use a Republican slate of electors in Georgia and six other swing states won by Democrat Joe Biden. Chesebro’s lawyers had argued that the documents …

The Hill reports: A judge Friday denied attempts by three “fake electors” charged in Georgia alongside former President Trump to move their charges to federal court, finding they were not federal officials. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones’s rulings round out the remaining defendants who attempted to move their cases. Jones had already rejected attempts by two other defendants in the …

Reuters reports: Former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall on Friday pleaded guilty to five criminal counts in the Georgia elections case, according to a live feed of a court hearing. Hall and 18 others, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, last month with conspiring to reverse Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in the state. …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump won’t try to move his Georgia criminal prosecution to federal court, his lawyer said Thursday. The surprising turn of events comes weeks after Steve Sadow, Trump’s attorney, notified the state judge that Trump may attempt such a move. “President Trump now notifies the Court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case …

Breitbart reports: The Georgia Senate Republican caucus voted on Thursday to remove State Sen. Colton Moore from the caucus for taking a first step in August to defund, investigate, and possibly impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who levied 13 counts against former President Donald Trump. Kemp and State Senate Republicans apparently oppose working to investigate, defund, and impeach …

The Messenger reports: Former President Jimmy Carter’s 99th birthday celebration at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum will now be on Saturday instead of Sunday to prevent cancellation if the museum has to close because of a government shutdown. “We want to make sure we are celebrating regardless of what Congress does,” Tony Clark, the site’s public affairs director, …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office is prosecuting cases involving former President Donald Trump, rapper Young Thug and other high profile defendants, says she and members of her family have faced troubling threats. “It’s very unfair to the other people and it’s a waste of time. It’s not going to stop what I’m doing,” …

The Messenger reports: Attorneys for pro-Donald Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro told a Georgia judge on Tuesday that providing “less than two months” of legal advice after the 2020 presidential election does not amount to a racketeering scheme. Fulton County prosecutors call Chesebro the architect of a plan to send pro-Trump electors to the U.S. Congress in states that Joe Biden …