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Reflecting on Donald Trump's expected trip to Atlanta where he will be fingerprinted and have a mugshot taken as he is booked on racketeering charges, conservative attorney George Conway painted a portrait of a grim future for the former president.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Conway, whose estranged wife Kellyanne worked as a White House adviser to Trump, predicted the former president stands no chance of avoiding jail where he will likely end his days.

Touching on the Republican Party debate on Wednesday night, Conway began, "They're all going to end up nominating a candidate who, you know, will maybe be a convicted felon, will probably die in prison, and was found by a federal district court to be a rapist. It's crazy."

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"I mean, essentially, he has been playing Russian roulette with the law and has loaded every single chamber," Conway explained. "He's not going to make it through all of this. The only way he can make it through all of this is if, somehow, he wins the presidency and then can declare himself immune from going to jail or being prosecuted."

During the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate scheduled for Wednesday night—which former U.S. President Donald Trump, the front-runner, is set to skip—the progressive group MoveOn Political Action plans to air an advertisement calling out his enablers in the party.

The 30-second ad highlights that Trump has been indicted in four cases this year and faces a total of 91 charges—and the complicity of other GOP presidential candidates, who have pledged to support and even pardon the ex-president.

According to a report from Page Six, the avalanche of indictments and civil suits is taking its toll on Donald Trump as he prepares to turn himself in at an Atlanta jail on Thursday.

Facing two federal indictments, one in Florida and one in Washington, D.C., a tax fraud trial in Manhattan and a racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, a Trump insider claimed the former president is “showing signs that it’s wearing on him.”

As Page Six's Mara Siegler wrote, the Georgia indictment has become a tipping point for the embattled ex-president despite all of his bravado.

"An insider tells us that the Georgia indictment has 'brought about a change,' adding, 'he’s not so confident anymore. He’s not acting so cocky anymore. He’s not lashing out so much. The arrogance is gone,'" the report states.

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That same insider also claimed Trump is leery about the loyalties of his 18 co-defendants in Georgia, many of whom are in no position to wage a costly and likely long-running legal battle.

Conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who served as a Republican expert witness during former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, called a Trump employee’s decision to retract his prior testimony in the Mar-A-Lago case “another ominous sign” for the defense.

Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office on Tuesday submitted a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Trump, aide Walt Nauta and one-time Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira were recently indicted on charges related to the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

All three co-defendants have pleaded “not guilty.”

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In Tuesday’s filing, prosecutors said a former Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker — identified as “Trump Employee 4” — switched legal counsel and “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, de Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment.”

Smith’s team filed that superseding indictment last month, alleging “Trump was part of a scheme to delete security video” and obstruct the FBI investigation into the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. The superseding indictment accused de Oliveira of telling “Trump Employee 4” — identified by NBC News as Yuscil Taveras — that “the boss” wanted a server deleted. That server, according to NBC News, “would show how [Trump’s] employees had moved boxes of documents before the FBI search.”

Taveras’ decision to change his testimony came after he received a target letter from Smith. His decision to flip “paved the way for prosecutors to seek new obstruction charges” and file that superseding indictment last month, ABC News reports.

Turley on Wednesday wrote, “The retraction of the prior testimony of Trump Employee 4 is another ominous sign in the Mar-a-Lago case.”

One of Donald Trump's employees retracted "prior false testimony" in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case after switching lawyers last month, and NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian compared the situation to the Mafia.

The aide, described in court fillings as "Trump Employee 4" and identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras, oversaw information technology at the former president's Florida resort home, and he previously testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any efforts to erase security videos but withdrew that testimony after dropping a lawyer paid by Trump political action committees.