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
    8·
    1 year ago

    The laws aren’t clear enough, unfortunately, because the powers that be are afraid to call what he did an insurrection or coup. They prefer to hem and haw over perceived nuances while pretending they were ignorant of his rhetoric and behavior years before Jan 6 and the 2020 election.

    • Maeve@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      While there is a point Fear can become complicity, this is just complicity.

    • flipht@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think everything is plenty clear. It’s just that half of our “leaders” are hoping he’ll drop dead before they have to make a stand, and the rest don’t want to make a stand because anything they do here can and will be used against them for frivolous reasons in the future, and they don’t want to draw fire or call attention to themselves.

      Something something tree of liberty