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Former President Donald Trump sits in court during a civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on November 6, 2023 in New York City.
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Former 4 people donald trump Advocates who pleaded guilty in a 2020 Georgia election interference criminal case recorded conversations with prosecutors that shed new light on their efforts, according to some videos obtained and released by news outlets. Ta. The White House “under no circumstances.”
Statements from former Trump lawyers jenna ellis, sidney powell and Kenneth Chesebro Atlanta based bail bondsman scott hall The prosecutors were asked to do so as part of a plea deal they struck with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a massive extortion case brought against the former president and 14 others.
In one of the videos, obtained by He dismissed concerns that his options were becoming increasingly limited. ABC News and The Washington Post. Media outlets obtained only part of the recorded statements from the four defendants.
“And he said to me, you know, in an excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care and we’re not leaving here,'” Ellis told prosecutors in the video. Told. “So I said, ‘What do you mean?’
“And he said, ‘Well, the boss.’ I mean, President Trump and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ and that’s what we all called him. ‘The boss doesn’t know what the situation is. But I’m not going to quit,’ he said,” she said. According to the video.
Mr. Scavino’s attorney did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. Scavino did not respond to ABC News.
ABC News first reported details of Ellis and Powell’s so-called suggested statements to prosecutors. The Washington Post late Monday published details of the other two defendants’ statements and some excerpts of the video, which the Post said ranged from about 30 minutes to several hours in length.
Some of the stories are consistent with those that have been widely reported previously; Including those by CNN. and other news outlets reported on delays in authorizing the transition between President Trump and President Joe Biden in late 2020 and early 2021. But the video released Monday still provides some new details about efforts by people close to Trump to flip the election in his favor.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen charges in the Georgia case.
Trump’s lead lawyer in the case, Steve Sadow, told ABC News in a statement that what he described as Ellis’ “purported private conversations” were “absolutely meaningless.”
“The only salient fact in this ridiculous series of investigations is that President Trump left the White House on January 20, 2021 and returned to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,” Sadow said. told ABC. “If this is the kind of bogus and ridiculous ‘evidence’ that Prosecutor Willis is seeking to rely on, it is yet another reason why this political farce must be dismissed.”
The paper reported that other information was disclosed to prosecutors by Powell, Chesebro and Hall, who said in a statement that during a meeting at the White House, Mr. Trump summarized a memo in which he provided advice on the following points: Despite Biden’s wins in those states, key battleground states are drawing alternate electors to vote for Trump. ”
Powell, who is known for pushing some of his more radical legal theories after the election, told prosecutors in a videotaped statement that if President Trump did what he wanted, he would have no special case to investigate election fraud. If he had appointed a prosecutor, “she would have tried to do that,” he said. She intended to seize election equipment and use the military to do so if necessary. ”
“I still believe the 2020 presidential election was tainted by ‘machine fraud,'” Powell also said, according to a videotape obtained by the newspaper.
Hall, the first defendant to plead guilty, was charged on January 7, 2021, with conspiring to gain unauthorized access to voter data and vote counting machines at the Coffee County elections office.
According to the paper, he told prosecutors as part of his offer statement that his role in the episode was that of a “political tourist,” and that bail bondsmen only fly to the rural county “for a few years.” He said that he claimed that laugh.
