Judge just handed Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro a loss – and its bad for Donald Trump

| 2:51 pm EDT September 6, 2023
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The Fulton County judge just ruled that Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro can’t sever their cases from each other. They’ll be tried together. Their “speedy trial” requests have officially backfired. This ruling is also bad for Trump, for a few different reasons.

First, with Powell and Chesebro now set to be tried together, the odds of conviction just went up. They both know this, so it certainly won’t hurt their odds of deciding to flip on everyone else instead of going to trial. We all know someone’s going to flip on Trump. Could this do it?

Second, it means this judge is not willing to sever these cases just because the defendants want it. This bodes poorly for Trump’s own request to sever. He’s likely going to have to stand trial with a chunk of his co-defendants, which he was hoping to avoid.

Yes, the judge expressed concerns about trying 17 people together. But so what? These people all want separate trials, and the judge just ended that notion. If they’re tried in groups of 5-6 or even 3-4 that’s still bad for them.

The judge did go out of his way to make clear that he’s in charge and that both sides will have to do things the way he wants. But that’s fine. A fair judge and a fair trial will put every one of these nineteen defendants in prison, including Trump.

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