Leaked Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis proffer interviews vindicate Fani Willis’ entire Fulton County case against Donald Trump
As part of their cooperating plea deals, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis did “proffer” interviews where they gave up everything they knew, so that Fulton County DA Fani Willis could determine what kind of deal to give them in return. Willis ended up giving them each multi-year probation sentences, with no prison. Why was she so lenient? Now we know why.
For some reason, those two proffer interviews have now leaked to the media. That’s not supposed to happen, and it’ll be a story unto itself. But these leaks won’t hurt Willis’ case. Evidence like this has to be turned over to the defendant as part of the discovery process anyway, so it’s not as if Trump gains an advantage.
Instead these interviews do two things. First, they show Powell and Ellis both saying that after Donald Trump lost the election, he simply decided he wasn’t going to leave office no matter what. We all already intuitively knew this. But this proves it in the legal sense, because it’s coming from people who worked directly under Trump, and were in a position to know this as a fact.
Now that Willis has proof in hand that Trump had already decided not to leave office no matter what, it makes it easier for her to portray Trump’s subsequent actions in Fulton County as intentionally criminal behavior. In other words, Trump can no longer make the reasonable doubt argument that he honestly thought he had won, and that his actions in Fulton County were an over the top attempt at vindicating himself.
These leaked proffer sessions don’t just prove that Fani Willis is justified in throwing the book at Donald Trump. They also make clear that Willis was wise to give lenient plea deals to Powell and Ellis. When they give the same testimony at trial that they gave in these proffer interviews, it’s going to make it an obvious and easy choice for the jury to convict Donald Trump.
