As of today, former President Trump and all of his 18 co-defendants, all of them in the Fulton County

conspiracy case, they have pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other criminal charges.

So, unity, I guess.

Beyond that, though, these 19 defendants

are not exactly marching in lockstep.

Five of Trump's co-defendants have filed to have their cases removed to federal court,

and the arguments they are trying to make to ensure that that happens, those arguments do not look good for the

former president. Take for example three of George's alleged fake electors,

David Schaefer, Kathy Latham, and Sean Still.

Now they have all said in their court filings that their cases belong in federal court

because they were just quote acting to assist the president or acting at the direction of the president.

Now those arguments might help these three folks

in claiming they were de facto federal employees,

which weird if true, and then maybe that will help them

argue that they shouldn't be trying at the state level,

but wow does that argument not help their co-defendant in all of this, Mr. Donald Trump.

It is essentially, judge, we were fake electors acting at the direction of the president.

We were federal fake electors judge.

Meanwhile, Trump's own chief of staff, Mark Meadows,

is making the argument that he was just doing what his boss wanted.

And again, that does not exactly look good for Mr. Trump.

In a hearing last week, Meadows was asked why he was so very

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