Trump Allies Take Plea Deals In Georgia — How That Changes The Case
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The world of podcasts can feel overwhelming. We'll let you in on the easiest way to find your next favorite show, head to |
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| 0:24.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department and joining us again. Sam Greenglass from WAB in Georgia. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey Sam. Hi there. Sam, you've been covering the case in Georgia against former president Donald Trump |
| 0:39.0 | and several of his associates in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 0:43.0 | And there've been some big developments in the past couple of days. |
| 0:46.0 | I want to start with that guilty plea from Jenna Ellis, the Trump lawyer. Remind me who she is. |
| 0:52.0 | And now that she's made this rather dramatic acknowledgement of what she did, what she said. What did she do? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, so you might remember Jenna Ellis from these press conferences that the Trump campaign held after the 2020 election. |
| 1:05.0 | She stood next to the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell. |
| 1:09.0 | And these people were making some pretty baseless claims about election fraud. |
| 1:14.0 | And the thing that she was actually charged in connection with was this December 2020 hearing for a Georgia state senate committee |
| 1:23.0 | where Giuliani and some other lawyers got up in front of these lawmakers. |
| 1:27.0 | And you know, we're making claims like tens of thousands of dead people, miners were all voting in Georgia's election. |
| 1:35.0 | All with the aim prosecutors say of getting these state lawmakers to help with their plan of submitting a fake slate of electors for Trump. |
| 1:44.0 | All we should say baseless claims. |
| 1:46.0 | Correct. And so when Jenna Ellis appeared in the courtroom this week to enter a guilty plea, something really unusual happened, at least in the course of the pleas we've had so far in this case. |
| 1:57.0 | She asked the judge if she could address the court and make an apology and she started to weep as she read this statement. |
| 2:05.0 | If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post election challenges. |
| 2:11.0 | I look back on this full experience with deep remorse. |
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