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In Georgia, one down and 18 to go

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Things haven't been going well for Team Trump in the Georgia election fraud case. Several attempts to move the trial into federal court have failed, and today one of the co-defendants broke ranks and agreed to a plea deal:

Scott Hall, a 59-year-old bail bondsman from the Augusta area who prosecutors alleged played a wide-ranging role in efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia, pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties.

....Prosecutors had alleged in a 98-page indictment unsealed last month that Hall served as a linchpin of a secretive effort to access and copy elections software in remote Coffee County, working alongside pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who allegedly retained the forensic data firm that accompanied Hall and others to Coffee County....Prosecutors say that on Jan. 2, 2021, he had a 63-minute phone call with Jeffrey Clark, a senior Justice Department official accused of plotting to delegitimize the vote in Georgia and other states and galvanize slates of contingent pro-Trump electors.

....Hall was sentenced to five years probation with a $5,000 fine.

Hall also agreed to testify in upcoming cases, which is certainly bad news for Sidney Powell, and possibly for others as well. This doesn't have much to do with Trump, however, so it probably doesn't affect his case very much.

18 thoughts on “In Georgia, one down and 18 to go”

  1. D_Ohrk_E1

    Are you happy, are you satisfied?
    How long can you stand the heat?
    Out of the doorway the bullets rip
    To the sound of the beat, look out

    Another one bites the dust.

    1. Jim Carey

      I think it will impact Trump's case. Look up chaos theory and the butterfly effect, then think of Donald as the personification of chaos and Scott as the butterfly.

    2. chumpchaser

      I think Fani Willis would have been happy to beat Scott Hall in court. This says to me that Hall offered some good info. Info enough to get him a deal of just probation and fines.

      This means that he can not only send Kraken to prison, but he can make it easier to flip Kraken and get to the real criminal behind the whole affair.

      1. bbleh

        He apparently also had a lot of contact with Jeff Clark, the rogue DOJ guy, who in turn had a lot of contact with the White House. So not clear where the dominoes might stop falling.

    3. Mitch Guthman

      It depends on the strength of her evidence to show the existence of the conspiracy and that Donald Trump (and whoever this guy testifies against) was a member of the conspiracy. If she can do that, testimony against Clark and the Kraken lady is also testimony against Trump.

  5. pjcamp1905

    "Remote" Coffee county? It's barely a stone's throw from both Savannah and Jacksonville, and I-75 runs past it. Geez, WaPo. By that metric, Annandale is remote.

    1. Excitable Boy

      Are you referring to Annandale, Va or one of the other ones? If you mean the one in Va, your personal metric system doesn’t work. Annandale is 13 miles and 15-20 minutes from downtown DC, while Coffee county is over 2 hours and 125-130 miles from Savannah. It has a slightly larger population than Coffee while being roughly 1/95th the size.

      1. pjcamp1905

        30 miles from I-75 and 40 from Valdosta. About 60 to the Florida line. I transported a rescue dog from Atlanta to there a week ago. It just isn't that far off the beaten path. Georgia isn't fucking Montana.

  6. Dana Decker

    They copied the software (completely, as a disk image*) and it was later distributed to the world. That means people can examine Dominion software and find chinks in the armor. The effective loss to the company creating necessary software patches or a completely new architecture is enormous. Hundreds of millions of dollars. It substantially increases the risk of actual vote rigging.

    Hall should not have been sentenced to merely five years probation.

    * it's more than simply reading code. If you boot a computer up with the image, it's a complete replica of the original machine - processes running, startup sequences, socket I/O, SQL activity.

    1. Mitch Guthman

      That ties in with my thoughts about the computer examinations by Republicans all around the country. I don’t think these people were looking for evidence of fraud. I think they were looking for ways to commit fraud in the future.

    1. kennethalmquist

      If garden variety shoplifting deserves the death penalty, I wonder what Trump would recommend for a more serious crime--like stealing voting machine software?

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