Raw Story reported on Donald Trump's former lawyer speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, appearing to test a new legal argument that blamed Sidney Powell.
Speaking to Tapper, lawyer Tim Parlatore revealed that "Trump co-conspirators" like Bernie Kerik are "turning on Trump alleged co-conspirators," as Just Security's Ryan Goodman tweeted.
"Kerik and others are going to be able to point right over to Sidney Powell and say, 'Hey, what they're accusing us of, she did!'" said Parlatore.
"Kerik (among others) also recently interviewed with special counsel Jack Smith’s team and was asked a lot of questions about Sidney Powell," added CNN's Zachary Cohen.
"So it begins: Rudy’s squad pointing fingers at Powell," said legal analyst Bradley Moss.
He later retweeted one of his comments from last week responding to the plea deal from Scott Hall. He called it "just step one on the Kraken prong of the Fulton County conspiracy charges. With Hall testifying, Willis will now move to pressure Powell to strike a deal as well. Powell will need to rat out Meadows and Trump."
Four days later, Moss was spot on: "Powell faces a real threat in the Georgia case if her pre-trial motions fail. Now she faces Rudy and Kerik tossing her under the bus. How long until she cracks?"
Goodman pointed out Tapper's follow-up questions were important: "Why were her crazy comments any different than anybody else's?"
Goodman pointed out that the Justice Department's indictment of Trump alleges that he "privately conceded Powell's election fraud claims were 'crazy,' while he publicly promoted her litigation of those claims."
He then cited the Jan. 6 final report by the House Select Committee: "Parlatore claims Trump dropped Powell. Hmmm. December 18 in White House meeting ... evidence gathered by the Committee also suggests that President Trump offered Sidney Powell the position of Special Counsel for election-related."
Criminal defense attorney Amy Lee Copeland told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that the deal Hall made and the speedy trial option Powell chose seems to have strengthened the plea deals.
Copeland said that in the 213-page motion Powell filed, she claimed she didn't have anything to do with with the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.
"Now, at about page 210, her attachments had Sullivan Strickler's CEOs deposition that said that Sidney Powell was their customer," Copeland continued. "But sometimes in life and in law, it works out that the nail that stands up gets hammered. And having laid out what looks like to be her defense, and what she thinks the weaknesses are in the case, we all of a sudden see Mr. Hall getting a plea deal, and then we see Mr. Kerik becoming more of an interesting witness to the prosecution."
Former Justice Department prosecutor and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann explained that District Attorney Fani Willis is deploying a strategy of indicting a large case to put pressure on smaller fish like Hall and Kerik to cooperate. The hope is that others will follow.
"It's unusual to me to see his lawyer essentially making that argument on television," Weissmann said of an immunity deal. "To me it suggests that there may not be playing out so well, or he is having private conversations with the prosecutors. Because immunity is asking for quite a lot for somebody who is already a convicted felon."
So, unless he has the goods on someone, Weissmann says it might not be worth the immunity.
See the O'Donnell discussion in the video below or at the link here.
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