'They imperil Trump': Legal expert warns indicted lawyers likely to turn on ex-president
Donald Trump may have avoided indictment in the Arizona "false electors" case that became public record on Wednesday, but the others now facing conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for scheming to send a set of bogus electors to Washington D.C. to keep their leader in office could still bring him down.
Legal analyst Harry Litman appeared on MSNBC's "All In" with Chris Hayes offering insight on how much damage some of the others formally charged, like Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis, could cause "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1" — otherwise known as Trump.
Mostly the 18 who are charged could end up taking guilty pleas and turn on the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
"It is not simply that they are in great peril, they imperil Trump," Litman said of felonies they are facing. "Because they are people who can cooperate and really do not have that many options or that much money."
Arizona took to task Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former attorney Rudy Giuliani, who had been uncharged co-conspirators in a Michigan earlier in the week.
A 2020 Trump campaign operative, Mike Roman, along with the supposed architect of the fake electors plan John Eastman, and Jenna Ellis and Christina Bobb, two attorneys who steered Trump and his 2020 campaign, were also among those charged.
There are now a total of 35 people who are accused of attempting to be fake electors in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona after signing certificates in 2020 to push forward a bogus effort to declare that Trump had won their state’s electoral votes, rather than Biden.
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For some, like Giuliani, Meadows, Roman, or Eastman — they now are charged in two states: Arizona and Fulton County, Georgia.
Among them, Ellis already pleaded guilty in exchange for her testimony in the Fulton County case, where Trump is also facing state racketeering charges for attempting to subvert the results of the election.
Also charged, according to The Times, were former state GOP chair Kelli Ward, executive director of the state party Greg Safsten, who at the time was executive director of the state party, and two state senators, Anthony Kern and Jake Hoffman.
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