The Politico article in the link looks into the fractures that might emerge among the 19 Defendants in the Georgia case.
What I don't know is what the legal status is of lawyers like John Eastman and Sidney Powell -if they are not on a Federal Contract, are they allowed to claim 'Attorney-Client Privilege'? Set aside the claim the law was broken, changing the rules, I don't really understand their status, or how they even got into the White House at all.
In the case of Mark Meadows, his problem is that in addition to being a Federal Employee, he must also be aware of the Hatch Act, and the argument that a sitting President has no legal right to personally challenge any election result in any State, let alone get the senior official on the phone to seek a reversal of the outcome.
But this is quite astonishing, if true-
"Meadows made clear in his own testimony at last week’s hearing that Trump viewed the false electors as a significant part of his strategy to remain in power. He said he sent an email pushing the campaign to assemble those slates because he feared a tongue-lashing from Trump.
“What I didn’t want to happen was for the campaign to prevail in court action and not have this” lined up, he said.
“Why?” prosecutor Anna Cross asked him.
“Because I knew I’d be yelled at by the president of the United States,” he said."
Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him - POLITICO
Seriously? If he is that terrified of the man, why didn't he just resign and let someone else do the dirty jobs as dictated to by Trump? Or, how about telling the man 'You can't do this, it's against the law'?
Pathetic.
