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 p…

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.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
    91·
    8 months ago

    he will have the full United States army behind him.

    Not a chance. The military is sworn to the constitution, not the commander in chief.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 months ago

        People die when they refuse to follow orders.

        There’s so much wrong here. Firstly, the US military isn’t the Russian military. The worst that’s going to happen for refusal to follow orders is an article 15. When that order is basically a governmental purge or cracking down on protests? Jesus christ the paperwork would be insane. Nobody is going to do that shit. Not to mention the president is severely limited in how he can use federal troops in the country, so whatever he wants to do probably won’t be legal anyway. He can’t use the national guard without a request from the state’s governor, and I guaranfuckingtee they won’t be his brownshirts either.