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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

As part of a plea deal, one of former President Donald Trump's attorneys has told prosecutors in Georgia that she was informed in the wake of the 2020 election that Donald Trump was "not going to leave" the White House -- despite the fact that he had already lost the election and most of his subsequent challenges.

The revelation, along with others, came during a confidential interview the attorney, Jenna Ellis, had with Fulton County investigators. ABC News has obtained portions of videos of the proffer sessions of both Ellis and Sidney Powell, two attorneys who aided Trump's efforts to overturn the election. The videos for the first time reveal details of what they have told law enforcement since agreeing to cooperate last month in the district attorney's election interference case.

Ellis, in her proffer session, informed prosecutors that senior Trump White House official Dan Scavino told her "the boss" would refuse to leave the White House despite losing the election, and alluded to two other instances she said were "relevant" to prosecutors -- but appeared to be prevented from disclosing those in the video portions obtained by ABC News due to attorney-client privilege, which hindered portions of her proffer.

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[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Basically only portions of the interviews were released. What is in what was released is not great for Trump, but there's nothing terrible for him in there. This suggests they were leaked by the defense who recently obtained the videos. The thought is since it's just a portion of these videos, that the parts that were not leaked have more damning info on Trump. It wouldn't have made sense for the prosecutor to have accepted very nice plea deals if all that's in these shortened videos is what they were giving them. But they're confidential, prosecution can't discuss what's in them until the trial, so we won't know for sure until then.

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