Posted on 10/19/2023 11:08:35 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Sidney Powell, the attorney who used that catchphrase for her work to overturn the 2020 presidential election, pleaded guilty today to six misdemeanors in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a sweeping racketeering case against Donald Trump and 16 others. Under the terms of the deal, Powell admitted she conspired to breach the election systems in Coffee County, Georgia. She recorded a proffer video with prosecutors that described the crimes and she agreed to testify at future cases. She also wrote an apology letter to citizens of Georgia and agreed to pay almost $9,000 in fines.
The plea deal appears to be a very good one for Powell—letting her off with only misdemeanors, which can be wiped from her record as a first offender if she complies with the terms of the agreement. She was set to go on trial tomorrow, alongside the lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who is accused of designing a scheme to submit false electors on behalf of Trump. (Powell still faces defamation charges from manufacturers of voting machines, and she’s an unindicted co-conspirator in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump.)
“It’s a great deal. If I were her, I’d be very pleased,” Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State, told me. “It’s a great outcome especially if you’re engaged in what most people would say are obvious felonies.”
The question is what it gives prosecutors. Although today’s plea doesn’t offer the public any new information about the prosecutors’ case or the evidence they have, it seems to have a potential to affect the overall Fulton County case in three ways. In short, Kreis told me, “I think there are a lot of people who are in more trouble than they were before.”
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Under the terms of the deal, Powell admitted she conspired to breach the election systems in Coffee County, Georgia. She recorded a proffer video with prosecutors that described the crimes and she agreed to testify at future cases. She also wrote an apology letter to citizens of Georgia and agreed to pay almost $9,000 in fines.The plea deal appears to be a very good one for Powell—letting her off with only misdemeanors, which can be wiped from her record as a first offender if she complies with the terms of the agreement.
There need to be limits on what a prosecutor can do. This is disgusting.
Oh, Bullsqueeze! Who TH is Anthony Michael Kreis to decide if Powell's "infractions" (if there were any) are "obvious felonies"?
Yes, it is.
I hope all the Sydney Powell fans are happy now.
Was this dimwit just squeezing Trump for $$$ ??
She was squawking voter fraud as loud as anyone.
Did she mislead Trump?
It may be disgusting but is done all the time in major cases, the Feds go after the lower-level people first, offer them a deal to flip in exchange for a lighter sentence and using that strategy they Feds have put away mobsters on down.
If you see Rudy Guiliani or Mark Meadows pleading guilty really soon, then Trump is in real danger.
When you unleash the Kraken, it could devour you.
There was real voter fraud in Coffee Co, GA.
The Kraken was released, except in her case, it was released back on her and not from her as she promised.
Trump’s Achilles Heal is that he associates and listens to less then loyal people. The list of people who have turned against him keeps getting longer and longer.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Ivanka and Jared throw Trump under the bus if a time comes where doing so would save them.
“Sidney Powell, the attorney who used that catchphrase for her work to overturn the 2020 presidential election...”
If the Atlantic was an honest publication, that line would read “Sidney Powell, the attorney who used that catchphrase for her work to prevent the theft of the 2020 presidential election...”
What exactly are the misdemeanors and CRIMES?
I was never impressed with her.
Lawfare.
Meadows is the more likely to flip. Giuliani is non compos mentis.
Turning state’s evidence has been around since before the Declaration of Independence. Good luck overturning over 270 years of jurisprudence.
It was evident by the briefs filed by Powell that she was yet another stupid hire by Trump.
The two people in Trump’s inner circle I feel sorry for are Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell, both built highly successful careers and now both are ruined.
Most of the rest were nothing before Trump and will go back to being nothing and grifters after Trump is gone
The Trump campaign fired her on 11/22/20 but she continued blabbing on in her own capacity after that.
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