While leaving the courthouse, Eastman reportedly resisted his attorney’s efforts to steer him away from an awaiting gaggle of reporters. Eastman then doubled down on the election lie used to justify the allegedly illegal effort to keep Trump in office, telling a reporter that there was “no question” in his mind that the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump.
“I am confident that, when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated,” Eastman added in a statement he read to reporters.
At this point I’d venture a lot of them are looking at if they plead guilty they go to jail vs if I plead not guilty an drag this out long enough then on the chance Trump got elected again he just pardons all his cronies with a blanket ‘all my buddies are good guys’ deal.
A lot of the Jan 6th rioters also thought Trump would pardon them.
“Trust the plan,” lmao!
Honestly I think people who fall for Donald Trump are incapable of learning from Donald Trump. He literally keeps not paying his workers, he will never come through. His idea of a deal is getting what he wants when he wants without compromise or concession. This is not a good thing.
Problem this idiots guess don’t understand is he can’t pardon them on state crimes. This dumb fuck going to prison. Let them keep talking to reporters.
They’re hanging on the possibility that this gets moved to federal court
It’s still a state charge though. If theyre found guilty the president can’t pardon them. The Georgia Governor can’t pardon them. It doesn’t matter where the case is tried.
I wasn’t aware that it kept it as a state charge, thanks for clarifying that for me. I guess maybe they’re hoping to get some help with the jury pool.
And or Trump appointed judges. And to stall.
Wait I thought the governor was the only one who could pardon you if it was a state charge
If that’s not the case hollywood has lied to me for too long. All them people on death row waiting for the governer to call before midnight that won’t do anything for them anyhow…
Wouldn’t be the first time…
That said, there was the case of that one Governor who kept pardoning killers because he lost the election and thought the newspapers would blame his successor for it, they did not… so I’m sure Governors CAN pardon state charges
Typically, yes. But Georgia law took that power away from the governor and gave it to a committee. Even then, the prisoner must serve the first five years of the sentence. So even if he wanted to, Kemp couldn’t pardon Trump.
Yeah I didn’t know this either until a month ago and I live here.