Sidney Powell pleads guilty in deal with prosecutors over efforts to overturn Trump loss in Georgia
It still amazes me that attorneys such as Powell and Giuliani would put their careers and livelihoods on the line to push blatant lies for Trump as part of a ill-conceived scheme to steal a US presidential election.
Her serving as a witness for the prosecution should be interesting. Not a good day for Trump.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state's anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial. A judge agreed that she will serve about six years of probation, have to pay $2,700 in restitution and have to testify truthfully against her co-defendants.
She was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. Prosecutors say she also participated in an unauthorized breach of elections equipment in a rural Georgia county elections office.
The acceptance of a plea deal is a remarkable about-face for a lawyer who, perhaps more than anyone else, strenuously pushed baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election in the face of extensive evidence to the contrary. If prosecutors compel her to testify, she could provide insight on a news conference she participated in on behalf of Trump and his campaign shortly after the election and on a White House meeting she attended in mid-December of that year during which strategies and theories to influence the outcome of the election were discussed.
Powell was scheduled to go on trial on Monday with lawyer Kenneth Chesebro after each filed a demand for a speedy trial. Jury selection was set to start Friday. The development means that Chesebro will go on trial by himself, though prosecutors said earlier that they also planned to look into the possibility of offering him a plea deal.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, last month pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced to five years of probation and agreed to testify in further proceedings.
Prosecutors allege that Powell conspired with Hall and others to access election equipment without authorization and hired computer forensics firm Sullivan Strickler to send a team to Coffee County, in south Georgia, to copy software and data from voting machines and computers there. The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top Sullivan Strickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.
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What on Earth was she thinking?
At this point, what difference does it make?
Well Greg and Just Jim, the difference is that she was one of the insiders in the Trump scheme and will be testifying under oath.
Clinton: "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information. The IC has a process, I understand, going with the other committees to explain how these talking points came out. But you know, to be clear, it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we’ll figure out what was going on in the meantime."
Yeah, stills sounds as incompetent today as it did then.....
All well and good except for the fact tge WH trotted someone out to push the theory that it was because of a video.
I guess the goober princess just couldn't visualize herself in a southern state prison...
Deflection
Interesting developments. I thought of her as a True Believer. Funny she took the deal and will testify against others.
I guess reality finally sunk in. Jail time, etc.
So none of the incontrovertible evidence they all claim they have, but have never shown still won't be shown? It's a pity.
she's stalling. I'll believe her taking a deal when I actually see her testify against those other rabid sycophants.
When the supposed tough lawyers actually face real jail time they tend turn and take plea deals. Orange jumpsuits are not a fashion statement.
So I guess she isn't as dumb as she acts.
the check she got from trump's legal defense PAC must have bounced...
Amazing isnt it?" Once ACTUAL consequences are in play all of a sudden "evidence" and "proof" vanishes.
Its possible that she and several others like her were so certain that Trump would have been re-elected that no matter what they did Trump would pardon them. (In addition if he had been re-elected he would have appointed one of groupies to be the U.S. District Attorney)-- in which case they could more or less do whatever they wanted.
If so, she took a truly stupid level of risk (vs. the reward) while engaging in a profound lack of integrity.
we're back to lemmings...
Trump only hired the best lawyers from Guilty, Guilty & Guilty ... I've lost count.
Squeeze 'Em, Fleece 'Em, Skin 'Em and Skip
When your shit is so crooked, even your lawyers have to plead guilty.
or they're forced to testify against you...
Sidney Powell pleaded guilty which is an indication that she will tell the truth about the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
This caused Rudy Ghouliani to shit out of his ears again.
Even the most tenacious rats are jumping ship.
They're showing the others how to swim.
The backstroke?
I guess all their front strokes stopped working...
Is the right prepared now to say there is proof the Trump forces attempted to steal the election? Let's not hold our collective breath. Sidney Powell was an official part of Trump's "election" team, unless you think she got up at the press conference where Rudy dripped hair dye, and blamed Trumps loss on Venezuelan and European and Chinese communists , without Trump's approval.
Now she has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of election interference.
As you know, right or wrong, I don't speak for the right. That said, I'm glad that she pleaded guilty and agreed to testify in other defendants trials.
They dropped all felonies, including the racketeering conspiracy that involved Trump, and let her plead guilty to misdemeanors. Not a win for the "election stealing conspiracy" crowd.
If they actually had evidence of a conspiracy, that's what they would require her to plead guilty to in order to leverage her testimony against Trump. Now the state has admitted she's not part of a conspiracy involving Trump.
They have already leveraged her testimony against Trump. Thats why they dropped the felonies.
“Not a win for the "election stealing conspiracy" crowd. “
Just another example of our judicial system doing its job…a win for everyone who considers that important and a ‘meh’ from those consumed by indifference to the truth.
No, prosecutors want her to plead guilty to being a member of the conspiracy to establish the existence of the conspiracy. It's the most important thing prosecutors want to establish and her pleading guilty to it would have gone a long way to proving its existence and implicating Trump. Prosecutors overcharged.
Very similar to Mueller, who could never get anyone to plead to actually engaging in a conspiracy.
She got one of those Hunter Biden type sweetheart deals.. Talk about a one tier justice system!!! /s
Is it? Maybe. Or maybe it just makes financial sense to plead to a few misdemeanors instead of paying tens of thousands more in lawyers' fees. Remember, because prosecutors sure do, the process is the punishment.
“.. the process is the punishment.”
We shall see. If trump should somehow win, the process will be broken beyond repair.
she may have made a sweet state deal, but nothing about a federal deal is mentioned ...
The trickle UP theory in action.
how'd you like to see that coming thru your bedroom door in a negligee?
She is going to weasel on Trump. Who wants to bet he calls her an ugly (look at that face!) loser?
So he is going to tell the truth. You should be elated.
Trump is incapable of telling the truth.
that comes after she gets her seditious goober ass kicked in club fed a few dozen times...
Let's not forget that Sidney has a huge case coming up where Dominion is suing her for lying about them. The judge recently threw out her counterclaim against Dominion.
Maybe after all is said and done she can move to a nice place like Southern Florida where being homeless is not as hard.....
Gotta watch out for those 14ft gators though...
Or 18-foot pythons.
not as hard except when the hurricanes hit, Thomas.
So gators, sharks, barracudas, pythons, hurricanes, rednecks, Rick Scott, Desantis, etc... Why would anybody want to live there?
And yet so many do. Stupid NY’s, NJ’s, CA and Michigans.
Old folk tired of winter and being cold?
Answer: Old folk tired of winter and being cold?
Congratulations, after pondering for a while, you were able to answer your own question.
My lawyer taught me to never ask a question that I didn't know the answer to.
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That's part of it. And-- especially for wealthier people-- the tax situation makes a big difference.
That's a rule lawyers themselves follow in court. But I've never heard of them giving that advice to a client.
trump sure is racking up the number of destroyed legal careers...
I wonder how this plea will affect the billion $+ defamation suit she's facing by dominion...