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𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲: 𝗥𝗮𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 '𝗴𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱' 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗷𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆
Legal experts said they were "absolutely gobsmacked" on Monday after former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows offered surprise testimony in court.
Hosts of the Opening Arguments podcast, run by attorney Andrew Torrez and legal journalist 𝗟𝗶𝘇 𝗗𝘆𝗲, reacted to Meadows' decision to testify on his own behalf at a federal court hearing arguments about whether his Georgia election interference case should be removed from state court.
"I'm absolutely gobsmacked that Mark Meadows would testify at today's evidentiary hearing in connection with his efforts to remove his indictment in Fulton County, GA to federal Court," one host wrote on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "Removal to federal court doesn't change what law applies (GA state), it doesn't make him eligible for a federal pardon, etc."
The podcast host argued Meadows may have jeopardized his Fifth Amendment rights.
"Meadows, of course, has a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination," the post explained. "He cannot be compelled to testify against himself in the underlying criminal indictment... unless he's deemed to have waived the privilege by voluntarily testifying. Typically, the standard is that when a witness discloses any incriminating fact, he waives the 5th with respect to all details about that fact; that prevents selective disclosure."
"GA law seems particularly bad (for Meadows) on waiver; Carter v State 288 SE2d 749 says a voluntary waiver on any fact 'is a waiver as to all other relevant facts,'" the post added.
But the attorney said it could depend on what Meadows discloses during his testimony.
"So, uh, we'll be watching to see what he said!" they concluded.
More at the link: https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-testifies/
Good read on how the fascist coup was supposed to work.
"Framing Ruby Freeman was a key strategy of Trump's coup attempt, and thankfully, it failed
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/28/2189887/-Framing-Ruby-Freeman-was-a-key-strategy-of-Trump-s-coup-attempt-and-thankfully-it-failed
"That focal point was a 62-year-old Black woman named Ruby Freeman. And, according to the 98-page indictment now on file in the Fulton County Superior Court, the astonishing lengths Trump and his associates went to frame her show just how critical to the attempted coup she actually was. Along the way, Trump and his enablers’ tactics, carried out under the color of governmental action, provide a terrifying taste of what a second Trump administration would do to ordinary Americans if it were ever allowed to occupy a position of power in this country again.