Onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case. Powell spread baseless claims of widespread election fraud after the 2020 contest Donald Trump lost.
Attorney Sidney Powell, then an attorney for Donald Trump, speaks during a rally in Alpharetta, Ga., on Dec. 2, 2020. Powell has now pleaded guilty as part of deal with prosecutors over efforts to overturn Trump's loss in Georgia.Onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the sweeping Georgia election interference case.
Powell spread baseless claims of widespread election fraud after the 2020 contest that Donald Trump lost, and worked to access voting machines in Coffee County, Ga., and elsewhere to further those assertions.The deal outlined Thursday has Powell pleading guilty to six counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. She faces one year of probation for each of the six charges, and that she must testify truthfully against co-defendants.
Powell had sought a speedy trial, and jury selection was to begin Friday in the trial of Powell and co-defendant Kenneth Cheseboro, another Trump-aligned lawyer. Cheseboro is now set to go to trial alone. She becomes the second person to take a guilty plea in the sprawling state case, after bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall. Hall helped access the voting equipment in Coffee County.Experts share sand retention concepts with Oceanside communityDemocracy Day is an effort that started in 2022 to draw attention to the crisis facing American democracy, provide the public with the context and information they need, and bring all types of media together to sound the alarm collectively.
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