
New Guilty Pleas Unlikely to Bolster Georgia Case Against Trump, Former Prosecutor Says
Three of former President Donald Trump’s legal advisors have entered guilty pleas in an ongoing criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia in the past week, but former prosecutor David Gelman said those plea deals are unlikely to help prosecutors convict the former president. “I know, the...
Three of former President Donald Trump’s legal advisors have entered guilty pleas in an ongoing criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia in the past week, but former prosecutor David Gelman said those plea deals are unlikely to help prosecutors convict the former president.
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Mr. Gelman said defendants often enter plea agreements because they can’t keep up with their legal costs and predicted many of the remaining defendants in this case would likely do the same.
He said it would be difficult to know how President Trump’s legal team will respond until they know how these other defendants may testify.
“What are they going to offer? That is the whole question on this. And if I’m the defense attorneys for Donald Trump, remember, they’re going to have the opportunity to cross-examine all these individuals who have cut plea deals and who are allegedly going to testify against him,” Mr. Gelman said.
In any case, the prosecutor-turned-defense attorney argued that any co-defendants who do take plea deals won’t be able to prove President Trump intended to commit a crime.