Request follows publication of ‘confidential video recordings’ of statements by Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro

Fulton county prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia to immediately impose an “emergency” protective order over the discovery materials to prevent potential future leaks of evidence.

The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president.

The Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis had previously asked for a protective order for the discovery materials in the case. But citing the leak of several of the “proffer” interviews, Willis renewed the request on Tuesday to Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      1 year ago

      Or at the very least, to poison the public against the court by selectively leaking only the least-incriminating excerpts so right-wing media can pretend that's all there is and the prosecution doesn't have a case.

    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      This also seems like stochastic terrorism, which is something that Trump has done a lot of.

      For Trump, because of his mentally ill base, all he has to do is tell them that someone isn't loyal, and that person will begin to get death threats.