Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows Will Not Be Offered Plea Deals in Georgia Election Case, Says Report

While Georgia prosecutors are trying to turn Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election case against him, they do not seem interested in offering the same deals to three co-defendants in particular. They are Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Mark Meadows.

A report by The Guardian noted that while Fulton County prosecutors are offering deals to the other co-defendants in the sprawling RICO case against the former president and his allies, they are "unwilling to offer deals to the key trio" and would prefer to have them stand in trial instead.

RICO cases are usually used to go after organized crime and the high-level defendants are usually not offered any deals while the lower-level criminals are offered deals to turn on their bosses. In the Georgia election case, former President Donald Trump is considered by many as the mob boss in the case while the sub-boss is former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Rudy Giuliani on the other hand is considered Trump's concierge.

Several Trump co-defendants have already flipped, the biggest names being former Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis. Powell was responsible for illegally accessing voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, while Ellis is part of the misinformation campaign to help Trump supporters believe that Trump won the 2020 election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has also opened plea talks with the remaining co-defendants. Should these "minor" co-defendants flip, they would be given lighter sentences in exchange for information and testimony against the higher-level defendants, especially the former president.

The Guardian report did note that the decision from prosecutors has not yet been communicated formally and could still shift as prosecutors may shift strategies, depending on the circumstances. However, this revelation does signal that prosecutors already have their main targets for the case.

Donald Trump Georgia Co-Defendant Takes Dig at Former President in New Filing

Ex-Trump attorney John Eastman, who is one of the people behind the fake electors scheme, recently went against his high-level co-defendant by urging the court to set an earlier final plea date. However, the wording of the filing threw some shade against the former president.

In Eastman's filing, his attorney wrote that the plea date should be earlier "so that Defendants who do not have lifetime United States Secret Service protection and who are not running for election to an office can exercise and have their right to a jury trial completed within 2024."

Eastman's attorney, Wilmer Parker III, argued that an earlier plea date and severing the defendants into two groups would allow "more than enough time" for the court to hold two trials without Donald Trump. This comes as prosecutors are looking to try all the remaining co-defendants together.

Georgia Supreme Court Blocks Republican Attack on DA Fani Willis

Much like his other criminal cases, Donald Trump is trying to win the Georgia case in the court of public opinion and is trying to get his allies in the state to act against DA Fani Willis. However, the state's highest court effectively blocked legislators from using a new law to remove Willis after she indicted the former president.

This was one of the over 30 laws that were introduced in recent years to remove or restrict elected prosecutors who lawmakers disagree with. This one in Georgia particularly targeted the Fulton County DA for indicting Trump.

Despite the Supreme Court decision, however, several supporters of the bill, including State Rep. Houston Gaines, who vowed that they will continue pushing it.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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