Trump In Trouble As First Co Defendant Agrees To Plea Deal

The first co-defendant in the Georgia indictments has agreed to flip on other defendants as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. The defendant, Scott Hall, was initially charged with 7 felony counts, but he will now avoid jail time in exchange for other penalties...and his complete, honest testimony against any other co-defendants that he is called to testify against. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why this is so bad for Trump, as well as the other defendants.

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Well folks, on Friday we got the very first plea deal accepted from one of the 19 defendants in the Georgia Rico charges. That individual, of course, happens to be one of the lower people on that, uh, you know, hierarchy here, man by the name of Scott Hall, a former Republican poll watcher for Fulton County also happens to be a bail bondsman. So Mr. Hall has agreed to plead to five misdemeanor charges when he was initially charged with seven felony counts. So that's a pretty, pretty sweetheart deal, right? Like you were hit with seven felonies, but now all you have to do is plead guilty to five misdemeanors and his punishment is going to be, uh, he'll be on probation for five years in exchange for a guilty plea on the five misdemeanors. He will also pay a $5,000 fine issue, a letter of apology to Georgia voters.

Is that necessary? Like, that's kind of juvenile, like you gotta write them a letter and say that you're real, real sorry for what you did. Um, but okay, we'll see if this guy can write, uh, serve 200 hours of community service and agree to avoid activities related to polling or administering elections. So he's getting off pretty easy depending on how good his writing skills are. But there's another point in this sentencing agreement that says this. He also agreed to testify truthfully in all other proceedings related to the case, which means he is agreed, he will turn state's witness if the need arises. Okay? That's the part everybody seems to forget about. Mr. Hall was charged with, of course, the voting breach in Coffee County, the one that, uh, Sidney Powell allegedly, you know, funded and sent the people down there. So again, he's like kind of the lowest person on this hierarchy here.

So that doesn't necessarily mean that, oh my God, he's gonna flip on Donald Trump. He may not have any info on Donald Trump. He may be so far down that line that he only communicated with, you know, two or three people up here who communicated with these people, who communicated with Trump. So he may not be able to tie Trump into any of this personally because he is so low down in the whole, you know, ladder of who did what. But he will have to testify if they need him. Again, that's another caveat. They may not need him at all. This may be part of Fannie Willis' plan, right? Like, do you actually want to do 18, 19 different trials for these individuals or do you want to get 18 guilty pleas and do the one trial against Donald Trump? You also want to keep your powder dry by not having to try all of these, you know, little weirdos at the bottom because if you take it to trial against somebody like Scott Hall, before you go to Donald Trump,

You're gonna have to pull out your biggest ammunition and then Trump's team's gonna see what you have and they're gonna, uh, have a lot of time to figure out ways to counter that. 'cause they know you're gonna bring it up against them as well. So in general, getting more and more people to accept these plea deals is in Fanny Willis's interest, even if they do not have enough information to flip on Donald Trump. Now having said that, is this still bad news for Donald Trump? The answer is a hundred percent yes because it's bad news for him and it's bad news for these 17 other people as well, because this individual Scott Hall may not have information on Trump.