Iran Press/ America: A second lawyer who represented Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, pleaded guilty on Friday to illegal efforts to reverse the former U.S. president’s defeat in the state of Georgia, just days before he was about to go on trial.
Approximately 24 hours ago, Donald Trump got the no-good, very bad news that his former attorney Sidney Powell had pleaded guilty to attempting to overturn his election loss in Georgia and had agreed to testify against her codefendants, one of whom happens to be the ex-president. Now, just one day later, a second lawyer who participated in the plot has also pleaded guilty, creating a trend that, by all accounts, does not appear to bode well for the former guy.
Chesebro pleaded guilty in a Fulton County court to conspiracy to commit filing of false documents, one day after another former lawyer for Trump, Sidney Powell, also pleaded guilty. The two had been scheduled to be tried together beginning on Monday.
The Georgia case is one of four state or federal criminal cases that Trump is facing and one of two specifically focused on his attempts to overturn his election defeat.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has pleaded not guilty and continues to falsely claim his loss was the result of fraud. 219
