October 20, 2023

After the Kraken Lady decided to flip like a pancake on a hot griddle, Kenneth Chesebro, a Donald Trump-aligned attorney who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, decided to jump in that griddle, too, so he is pleading guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.

Chesebro, who was charged alongside the twice-impeached, four-times indicted former President and more than a dozen other codefendants with serious charges, such as attempting to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election, was scheduled to stand trial this week.

MSNBC talking heads discussed the breaking news.

"The significance of Kenneth Chesebro switching his plea, following what Sidney Powell did the other day, switching his plea to guilty, it seems to -- my read on this one count, count 15, it's a felony of filing false documents, but it seems to me it's a very light sentence -- that was a minimum of one to five incarceration, and he ended up with a fine, community service, a letter of apology," Andrea Mitchell said.

"It's hard to overstate, I think, the significance of what we have just watched unfold here," MSNBC legal correspondent Laura Jarrett said. "You have somebody who prosecutors believe was at the center of the scheme to create false slates of electors to put forth to The National Archives and Congress, to overturn the will of the people, overturn the election results in Georgia, who has now pled guilty to a felony."

"This is the first one we have seen plead guilty to a felony. In return for his cooperation and help to prosecutors, he is getting probation," she added. "That means he has given them something significant to the likes of what we saw yesterday with his codefendant Sidney Powell, another attorney who was also at the center of the schemes to overturn the election and also receiving probation in return for her cooperation. To have the two of them together, I cannot overstate enough how significant this is."

Who is next, you guys, Jenna Ellis?

There is something satisfying about watching this:

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