Donald Trump is a nervous wreck after two of his former attorneys pleaded guilty in the Georgia criminal case that has also ensnared the ex-president, according to a former GOP strategist on Saturday.
Conspiracy-spouting lawyer Sidney Powell and fellow MAGA attorney Kenneth Chesebro recently pleaded guilty in the election conspiracy case being prosecuted by Fani Willis. Legal experts have predicted that the pleas could expedite the trial against Trump himself.
Matthew Dowd, who previously worked for George W. Bush's campaigns, was asked about the implications of those guilty pleas on Trump.
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Appearing on MSNBC's Ayman on Saturday, Dowd said, "Mafia dons usually don't like people to flip."
"I think that Donald Trump is like, if you think about this like Tony Soprano, he is holed up somewhere, and now many of his underlings have flipped and they are about to testify in the case... likely against him in the course of this," Dowd said. "They've already admitted to certain fact sets in this that there was enough facts and evidence -- to take a plea bargain in the course of this."
Dowd's guess, he says, is that, "when he's got former people that were lawyers, rolling up on Fani Willis' side on this, he is a nervous, nervous, nervous person, and it is a classic case, in my view, classic case, of when you do these massive conspiracy cases, to get the underlings and under bosses to roll up, it is only pointing in one direction, and that's at Donald Trump."
