"They're about to lose everything."
Georgia Republican mocks Trump and co-defendants 'batting 0 for 500' in court
M.L. Nestel
December 18, 2023 10:48PM
Donald Trump and his co-defendants are swinging and missing.
Geoff Duncan, the former GOP lieutenant governor of Georgia, turned to baseball metaphors to drive home the poor showing in court among Trump and those floating in his orbit.
"Make no mistake about it, [former chief of staff] Mark Meadows was not down here on official business — he was here to meddle in our elections here in Georgia," Duncan said.
He was speaking of the 36-page opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit sinking Meadows' attempt to move his criminal charges in the Georgia election racketeering case from state to federal court.
Duncan said: "I feel like Trump and his cohorts are 0 for 500 right now and continuing to just be thrown in their face that, you know, they're trying to get off on technicalities."
He further knocked the 45th president and others in their legal scramble for exoneration to "produce proof" because it would "change the narrative"
Conservative Chief Judge William Pryor who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush and a name on Trump's shortlist for Supreme Court nominations, concluded that among other things the offenses of which Meadows is accused were outside the bounds of his official duties.
"Meadows also cannot point to any authority for influencing state officials with allegations of election fraud," wrote Pryor. "At bottom, whatever the chief of staff's role with respect to state election administration, that role does not include altering valid election results in favor of a particular candidate."
But they haven't, according to him.
"The brutal realities are everybody in Trump's orbit, most of these defendants are waking up realizing they need to flip from protecting their own boss, to protecting their you-know-what" because he believes "they're about to lose everything."
He lumped together the "co-defendants and these cast of clowns" that surrounded Trump for years, saying that they are all bracing for what's to come.
Namely, Duncan says they are "going to lose their careers and be disbarred, they're going to lose their money, and quite honestly, they're going to lose their freedom; some folks are going to spend years in jail. The hard road ahead is necessary to endure for a rebuild."
"It's painful to watch the Republican Party go through this, I'm being optimistic and calling it a healing process, but we need to wake up now or else it's going to be too late," Duncan closed.
Georgia Republican mocks Trump and co-defendants 'batting 0 for 500' in court
M.L. Nestel
December 18, 2023 10:48PM
Donald Trump and his co-defendants are swinging and missing.
Geoff Duncan, the former GOP lieutenant governor of Georgia, turned to baseball metaphors to drive home the poor showing in court among Trump and those floating in his orbit.
"Make no mistake about it, [former chief of staff] Mark Meadows was not down here on official business — he was here to meddle in our elections here in Georgia," Duncan said.
He was speaking of the 36-page opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit sinking Meadows' attempt to move his criminal charges in the Georgia election racketeering case from state to federal court.
Duncan said: "I feel like Trump and his cohorts are 0 for 500 right now and continuing to just be thrown in their face that, you know, they're trying to get off on technicalities."
He further knocked the 45th president and others in their legal scramble for exoneration to "produce proof" because it would "change the narrative"
Conservative Chief Judge William Pryor who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush and a name on Trump's shortlist for Supreme Court nominations, concluded that among other things the offenses of which Meadows is accused were outside the bounds of his official duties.
"Meadows also cannot point to any authority for influencing state officials with allegations of election fraud," wrote Pryor. "At bottom, whatever the chief of staff's role with respect to state election administration, that role does not include altering valid election results in favor of a particular candidate."
But they haven't, according to him.
"The brutal realities are everybody in Trump's orbit, most of these defendants are waking up realizing they need to flip from protecting their own boss, to protecting their you-know-what" because he believes "they're about to lose everything."
He lumped together the "co-defendants and these cast of clowns" that surrounded Trump for years, saying that they are all bracing for what's to come.
Namely, Duncan says they are "going to lose their careers and be disbarred, they're going to lose their money, and quite honestly, they're going to lose their freedom; some folks are going to spend years in jail. The hard road ahead is necessary to endure for a rebuild."
"It's painful to watch the Republican Party go through this, I'm being optimistic and calling it a healing process, but we need to wake up now or else it's going to be too late," Duncan closed.
