Protective Order Planned in Trump's Georgia Racketeering Case

Atlanta, Georgia United States of America
Atlanta District Attorney Fani T. Willis expects the case to stretch into 2025.
Four of the defendants have already accepted plea deals.
Judge Scott McAfee plans to impose a protective order in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants.
Trump's attorneys, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, revealed their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

In the ongoing racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants, Judge Scott McAfee plans to impose a protective order to limit how evidence is handled. This decision comes after a defense lawyer admitted to disclosing video clips of witness interviews to a media outlet. The protective order will not completely ban the sharing of evidence with the public, but it will apply to materials designated as sensitive.

The case, led by Atlanta District Attorney Fani T. Willis, is expected to stretch into 2025. Four of the defendants have already accepted plea deals. Willis's office has sought an emergency protective order to prevent further leaks of discovery materials. The protective order is seen as necessary to protect witnesses from harm and safeguard sensitive evidence that could be used to intimidate or harass witnesses, potentially resulting in a tainted jury pool.

The case has revealed details about the efforts of Trump's attorneys, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, to overturn the 2020 election results. Ellis informed prosecutors that senior Trump White House official Dan Scavino told her Trump would refuse to leave the White House despite losing the election. Powell outlined her plans for seizing voting machines nationwide and claimed frequent communication with Trump during her efforts to overturn the election.

The charges include a meeting of the Trump slate of presidential electors in Atlanta, Trump's pressure campaign seeking help from multiple Georgia state officials in reversing his defeat, a breach of election equipment in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in a hunt for evidence of fraud, and harassment of two local election workers in Fulton County who were falsely accused of counting fraudulent ballots on election night.


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    • Ellis informed prosecutors that senior Trump White House official Dan Scavino told her Trump would refuse to leave the White House despite losing the election.
    • Powell explained her plans for seizing voting machines nationwide and claimed frequent communication with Trump during her efforts to overturn the election.
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    • The article includes statements from the attorneys for Trump, but does not include any statements or perspectives from Trump or his team directly.
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      • Four of the defendants have already taken plea deals.
      • Willis's office sought an emergency protective order to prevent more leaks of discovery materials.
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      No Contradictions at Time Of Publication
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      None Found At Time Of Publication
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      • Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and a defendant in the case, said Ms. Willis’s suggestion that a trial would stretch into 2025 “just further demonstrates how this entire fraudulent case is part of the Democrat Party and permanent political class’s attempt to keep Donald Trump out of the White House in 2024.”
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        • Willis argued that a protective order was necessary to keep witnesses from harm and safeguard sensitive evidence that could be used to intimidate witnesses and harass them, which would result in a tainted jury pool.
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        None Found At Time Of Publication
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        • Prosecutors are pursuing a felony racketeering case against Donald Trump and 14 of his allies accusing them of illegally conspiring in Georgia and several other states to overturn the GOP incumbent’s narrow loss to Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
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        • Unique Points
          • Judge Scott McAfee, overseeing the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants, plans to impose a protective order limiting how evidence is handled after a defense lawyer admitted to disclosing video clips of witness interviews to a media outlet.
        • Accuracy
          No Contradictions at Time Of Publication
        • Deception (100%)
          None Found At Time Of Publication
        • Fallacies (100%)
          None Found At Time Of Publication
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          None Found At Time Of Publication
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          None Found At Time Of Publication

        92%

        • Unique Points
          • The charges include meeting of the Trump slate of presidential electors in Atlanta, Trump's pressure campaign seeking help from multiple Georgia state officials in reversing his defeat, a breach of election equipment in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in a hunt for evidence of fraud, and harassment of two local election workers in Fulton County who were falsely accused of counting fraudulent ballots on election night.
        • Accuracy
          No Contradictions at Time Of Publication
        • Deception (100%)
          None Found At Time Of Publication
        • Fallacies (100%)
          None Found At Time Of Publication
        • Bias (80%)
          • The sweeping Fulton indictment, unsealed in August, accuses Trump and 18 other defendants — including Rudy Giuliani, his former personal attorney; Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff; former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark; and former Georgia GOP chairman David Shafer — of a wide-ranging conspiracy to steal the 2020 election.
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