Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro takes plea deal in Georgia election interference case, agrees to testify



Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro — a key co-defendant in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case — took a last-minute plea deal.

The former Trump campaign legal adviser struck a deal with Georgia prosecutors regarding the 2020 election interference case. Chesebro will plead guilty to a single felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing of false documents and in exchange, Chesebro will truthfully testify and provide documents and evidence. Chesebro had originally pled not guilty.

The Associated Press reported, "According to the negotiated terms, Chesebro will receive 5 years of probation; pay $5,000 restitution; complete 100 hours of community service; write an apology letter; and testify as needed against former President Trump and the remaining defendants."

According to NBC News, "Chesebro told the court that he had already written an apology letter, another term of the agreement. The deal was offered under Georgia’s First Offender Act, and roughly followed the contours of the plea offer that Chesebro rejected in late September."

Chesebro's attorneys previously argued, "Nothing about Mr. Chesebro's conduct falls outside the bounds of what lawyers do on a daily basis; researching the law in order to find solutions that address their clients' particularized needs."

Before the plea deal, Chesebro faced seven original counts against him related to the reported plan to submit a slate of fake electors from Georgia.

The judge said if Chesebro successfully adheres to the sentence, the case will be officially sealed, leaving him without a criminal record.

Chesebro, 62, is one of the 19 defendants in Georgia's election interference case against Trump and his allies.

The plea arrives one day after former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell took a plea deal. Barely avoiding a trial, Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors and only received probation in exchange for her testimony in the case.

Last month, bail bondsman Scott Hall struck an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to tampering with voting machine equipment. He received probation in exchange for agreeing to testify at the trial of other co-defendants.

Powell, Chesebro, Trump, and 16 others pleaded not guilty in August to all charges related to the alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

All the defendants are accused of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, by participating in an effort to recruit false electors to subvert the 2020 election that Trump lost.

Politico noted, "Prosecutors say that effort was part of a 'multistate conspiracy' to subvert the 2020 election by violating federal election laws and stoking improper challenges to Joe Biden’s victory."

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Trump's ex-lawyer, Sidney Powell, just released the kraken by pleading guilty in Georgia case



Sidney Powell has just sent a shock wave through America.

Powell, whom Sara Gonzales calls the “most outspoken one” regarding election fraud, pleaded guilty to six criminal counts in a deal with the Fulton County prosecutors that gave her a reduced sentence and no jail time.

Just a couple of years ago, Powell is recorded telling a Fox News host that “there needs to be a massive criminal investigation, and it’s going to affect millions of voters in elections, and it’s been organized and conducted with the help of Silicon Valley people, the big tech companies, the social media companies, and even the media companies.”

“And,” Powell continued, “I’m going to release the kraken.”

“Well, that never happened,” Gonzales says.

“You have to wonder what she gave in exchange for that reduced sentence.”

BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens is “surprised” but notes that she’s also been sued by Dominion “for something insane like $3 billion, which they know she can’t pay.”

Booyens believes this is “a victory for the other side,” because “now what does Jenna Ellis do in this situation? What does Rudy do?”

Pat Gray is also surprised.

“I thought she was going to produce something, you know, the smoking gun, and then she had nothing,” Gray says, adding, “I’m surprised that you were so emphatic and then it was a lie.”

Meanwhile, Douglass Mackey has been sentenced to seven months in prison after being found guilty of election interference because he made a meme about Hillary Clinton.

The meme featured the slogan “Vote for Hillary” and directions to “avoid the line, vote from home” by texting the word “Hillary” to 59925.

“I mean they’re literally throwing people in prison for memes,” Gonzales says.


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Michael Flynn: 'I must have put the fear of God into Barack Obama'



Former national security advisor Mike Flynn took aim at former President Barack Obama. In his first television interview since his pardon, Flynn said he "must have put the fear of God into Barack Obama."

President Donald Trump tapped Flynn to become his national security adviser on Nov. 18, 2016. Trump visited Obama on Nov. 10, 2016, where Obama allegedly warned the incoming POTUS about Flynn, according to Obama administration officials. Flynn previously worked under Obama as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 until 2014.

On Saturday, Flynn theorized as to why Obama would have sounded the alarm about him to the incoming administration.

"I must have put the fear of God into Barack Obama and still do because of this long four-year saga they put me, my family through, President Donald J. Trump, his family, and frankly the entire country," Flynn told Fox News' Jeanine Pirro. "One of these days, I'll lay it out."

Pirro pushed Flynn as to why Obama would issue a forewarning about him to Trump.

"When he chose me to be the national security advisor they knew that their little plan of spying on Donald Trump would fall apart and many other foreign policy blunders they got our country into, whether it was the Iran deal, issues going on in the Asian-pacific theater, trade, all sorts of issues that were in play that the last administration did to frankly run this country right into the ground," Flynn said of his former boss.

"They knew those were the types of things I was aware of. Because let's face it. Barack Obama appointed me twice. I was Senate confirmed twice during the time I was in the military," Flynn retorted. "So, it's amazing that would be what he would focus on during the transition for the United States of America. It's outrageous, actually."

Pirro asked Flynn about his former attorney Sidney Powell, who is currently challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election.

"I call Sidney Powell America's guardian angel of justice," Flynn stated. "Sidney Powell's clients are the people of the United States of America. That's who she is fighting for right now."

"She has her teeth into Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the stuff that she has laid out in her various filings, it is going to play out here," Flynn continued.

"We have to stop all engines right now," Flynn proclaimed. "All these governors and all these quote-unquote leaders of their states, they have to take responsibility and do something to stop what they are doing."

Flynn advised, "Do not certify these elections and basically go back and do a far more detailed technical mail ballot and signature audit instead of just saying to the American people, 'Hey, nothing to see here. We are just going to continue to move on to an inauguration.' I'm sorry, that's not what the American people want and they won't stand for it."

Last month, Flynn was granted a full pardon by Trump after the retired Army lieutenant general originally pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI over conversations that he had with a Russian envoy. Flynn later withdrew his guilty plea after Powell brought evidence suggesting that he was targeted. The Justice Department sought to drop Flynn's case in May.

Flynn served as Trump's national security adviser for 25 days before being dismissed over the allegations that he had lied to FBI agents.