Donald Trump leaves a trail of stupid suckers behind as he hits ‘Bingo’…..
State criminal and civil cases continue against those who had tried to help Donald Trump on his first go around…..
Many present Trump helpers COULD also get themselves in trouble down the road also….
President-elect Trump’s White House victory set his legal cases on a downward spiral, but his allies who have faced prosecution or other legal trouble are not yet in the clear.
Dozens of Trump aides, associates and backers — including top officials in his first administration — have faced criminal charges tied to efforts to keep the former president in power after he lost the 2020 election. Many also faced disbarments, bankruptcy and civil litigation.
While Trump’s criminal cases are winding down upon his imminent return to the nation’s highest office, those same protections he has as president don’t extend to his allies.
In Georgia, more than a dozen people were charged alongside Trump with attempting to subvert the state’s election results. President Biden won the state by 11,779 votes in 2020.
Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani, the ex-New York City mayor who helped lead the 2020 push, are co-defendants in that case, in addition to several lawyers and aides. Trump supporters who signed false paperwork saying they were the state’s true electors are also charged….
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In fact, with Trump effectively out of the picture, any limitations the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision would have put on the prosecution — barring certain evidence and causing further delays — are gone now, said Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor. It could make his allies’ prosecutions more potent.
“They’re kind of living on a hope and a prayer that something has changed in the world to their benefit,” Kreis said of Trump’s co-defendants, citing the former president’s election win. “But when it comes down to the actual trial practice, they might be more sorry than glad.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis won her own reelection this fall, allowing her to maintain her place at the helm of the historic case. In an interview with Atlanta News First, she declined to nail down a plan forward but indicated that she doesn’t intend to let the case crumble — for any defendant….
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Even as president, there’s little Trump can do to help.
“I think they’re out on their own,” Kreis said. ….
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A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled…
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In an interview with The Washington Post last year, Richer, a lifelong Republican who volunteered for Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign as a student in Illinois, said that lies spread about him by Lake and her affiliates have harmed his relationships with friends, family and past political supporters. He said he saw a direct link between rhetoric by Lake and her affiliates about him and the resulting attacks on him….
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