Trump and Giuliani will be dragged to trial as Georgia prosecutors rule out plea deals

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia aren't willing to give former President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani the same plea deals they gave to attorneys Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis.

The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reports that prosecutors have ruled out offering deals to Trump and Giuliani, as well as to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, which means that those three will be dragged into court to face charges in Fulton County DA Fani Willis' sprawling racketeering case.

According to Lowell, this strategy "signals who prosecutors consider their main targets, and how they want to wield the power of Georgia’s racketeering statute to their advantage."

While it's not known exactly how prosecutors will use the guilty pleas from Powell, Ellis, and Chesebro against Trump, Giuliani, and Meadows, we do know a little bit about some of the damning testimony they have delivered so far.

Ellis, for example, said she was told by Trump aide Dan Scavino that the former president was not going to leave the White House "under any circumstances," no matter the official results of the 2020 election.

Powell, meanwhile, testified that Trump sought out her counsel on trying to overturn the results of the election because practically every other lawyer in the White House told him he had lost and that the should prepare to leave.