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    Trump’s lawyers plead guilty. What does that mean for Georgia case?

    by Peter Grier Oct 26, 2023 5 minutes

    Sidney Powell promoted the false assertion that in November 2020, some U.S. voting machines secretly switched ballots for then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden, subverting the election.

    Kenneth Chesebro helped organize slates of fake Electoral College electors to wrongly claim Mr. Trump had won key states that he actually lost.

    Jenna Ellis drafted memos insisting that Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to halt Mr. Biden’s victory, a theory widely disputed by legal experts, as well as Mr. Pence himself.

    In August, these three lawyers were all charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as co-defendants with Mr. Trump in her . But over recent days, all have pleaded guilty and accepted plea deals, potentially reshaping the case’s legal context and boosting prosecutors’ efforts to flip more defendants into cooperators.

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