A co-defendant of former president Donald Trump’s in the Georgia racketeering case filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is already making it clear he isn’t willing to go to prison for the failed ex-president.
According to Politico, Kyle Still was one of the “fake electors” selected to help overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and a filing from his attorney places the blame for the entire scheme on Trump.
“Mr. Still, as a presidential elector, was also acting at the direction of the incumbent president of the United States,” his attorney Thomas Bever argued Thursday in a court filing seeking to transfer the case against him to federal court. “The president’s attorneys instructed Mr. Still and the other contingent electors that they had to meet and cast their ballots on Dec. 14, 2020.”
Fake electors were chosen in seven states where Trump had lost, including Georgia. The goal of the plan was to have an alternate slate of presidential electors pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to recognize the Trump electors instead of those Biden had legitimately won, which would have tipped the election to Trump despite his having lost both the popular and electoral vote.
Still’s argument is similar to one being used by David Shafer, former chair of the Georgia GOP:
Still, who took office as a state senator in January, aligned his argument closely with co-defendant David Shafer, a former chair of the Georgia GOP who also served as a false elector on Trump’s behalf in December 2020. Like Still, Shafer is seeking to transfer his charges to federal court, arguing that the advice of Trump campaign attorneys was consistent with historical precedents and federal procedures.
“Mr. Shafer and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials,” Shafer’s attorney wrote in a petition seeking to move the Fulton County case to federal court.
Trump was booked, fingerprinted, and photographed at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday evening, later complaining about the ordeal.
“I went through an experience that I never thought I’d have to go through, but then I’ve gone through the same experience three other times. In my whole life, I didn’t know anything about indictments. And now I’ve been indicted, like, four times.”
Just imagine how upset Donnie will be when he has to put on an orange prison jumpsuit.
